Current Research Projects - Blog Style

Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: 5R01MH058076-13

To evaluate the efficacy of a CNS-targeted antiretroviral treatment (ART) strategy for individuals with HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment (HNCI) through a randomized clinical trial.

Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: 5R25MH071482-04

To establish a two-year Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDS to train tomorrow`s generation of NeuroAIDS clinician-researchers by mentoring fellows with leading edge basic and clinical neuroscientists attached to the HNRC, UCSD, The Scripps Research Institute, and the Burnham Medical Research Institute.

Agency: NIH/NINDS
Agency Award Number: 5R21NS069355-02

To critically assess the performance of two relatively automated subcortical labeling methods in HIV and to examine a statistical pre-processing procedure that may enhance performance of these methods.

Agency: NIH/NIDA
Agency Award Number: 5P50DA026306-02

This research center aims to provide scientific leadership, technical support, and opportunities for training to coalesce the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of investigators to elucidate METH/HIV-inducted CNS injury.

Agency: NIH/NIMH/NINDS
Agency Award Number: 5U01MH083506-03

A tissue bank comprised of CNS autopsy material from HIV infected individuals who are well characterized neuropsychologically and neuromedically.

Agency: NIH/NIMH/NINDS
Agency Award Number: HHSN271201000030C

Summary: To further utilize and expand datasets and specimens collected under current/previous NIMH CHARTER contracts to serve as a continuing resource to the broader NeuroAIDS research community to study the pathophysiology of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders.