Past Research Projects
Past Research Projects
Examples of Past Research Projects:
Agency: UCSD/Academic Senate
Agency Award Number: RH128H-WOODS
To evaluate the effects of methamphetamine use on prospective memory (ProM).
Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: R01MH073419
To extend the findings from the initial grant period by focusing on older adults with HIV, expanding the study design to examine the incidence of ProM impairment and its risk factors, broaden our conceptual model to include habitual ProM, and examine an important new functional outcome, health-related quality of life.
Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: R01MH64907
To establish the utility of the functional battery for measuring HIV-related functional impairments in Spanish speakers.
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Agency Award Number: R03DA027513
To examine the relationship between CYP2D6 and FMO3 genotypes and neuropathologic changes observed in brain tissue from METH dependent subjects who died with AIDS.
Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: 1R21MH76681-NCE
To study the association between immunophilins (IP) and markers of neurodegeneration in HIV infected patients.





Dr. Scott Letendre, MD, presented at the HIV and Aging Symposium 2026.