"Hopefully it's a wave of the future that inhaling combusted tobacco will someday be a thing of the past."
The Nicotine and Tobacco Science Conference is our 26 year legacy of this vision
Conference History
Spanning 24 years from 1995 - 2019, Dr. Jed E. Rose and colleague Dr. Ed Levin organized the Duke Nicotine Research Conference, a diverse and well attended scientific conference. This conference was aimed at "across the aisle" discussion, bringing leading academic and industry researchers together with a focus on smoking cessation, tobacco harm reduction, and understanding the underlying mechanisms contributing to cigarette addiction. This conference came to an abrupt pause due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Now in its second year post-pandemic, the Nicotine and Tobacco Science Conference will continue the legacy of addressing the latest knowledge and practices relating to this area with high public health impact. The 2026 conference will explore advances in scientific and clinical approaches relating to the benefits and harms of nicotine.
While the NTSC Conference is national is scope, it has a regional emphasis, seeking to highlight the latest science from leading centers of research in the Southeast and Eastern United States. The 2026 conference is hosted at the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC.
Special thanks to Dr. Mike Cummings in support of the 2024 NTSC at MUSC. Information on this past conference can still be viewed here.
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Disclosures
The 2026 NTSC conference is not funded by industry and is intended to be self-funded through ticket sales. Volunteer organizers in 2026 include Drs. Jed Rose and Gal Cohen.
Gal Cohen, PhD and Jed Rose, PhD are employees of Rose Research Center (RRC). RRC is an independent contract research organization that performs studies pertaining to smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction. RRC research support includes: National Institute on Drug Abuse; Global Action to End Smoking, a US nonprofit 501(c)(3) private foundation; Nicotine BRST LLC; JUUL Labs; Altria; Embera Neurotherapeutics, Inc.; Otsuka Pharmaceutical; Swedish Match, Philip Morris International. Patent applications filed for bupropion/zonisamide and related drug combinations. Patent purchase agreement with Philip Morris International for nicotine inhalation system patents, final payment 2014. Patent payments from Novartis through University of California patent license for nicotine skin patch, final payment 2008. RRC is the developer of the eResearch integrated digital platform for decentralized clinical trials of stop smoking products. J.E.R. Consulting: Philip Morris International, JT International, SA. G.C. was previously a Principal Scientist at JUUL Labs, a developer of non-combusted tobacco products, and was previously employed by its predecessor companies. He also was employed at Nektar Therapeutics, whose pipeline included an inhaled NRT. Stock holdings in JUUL Labs, and Qnovia, a developer of an inhaled NRT. RRC does not have any unrestricted grants, and its involvement in this conference is not sponsored by any third party entity.