2026 UC San Diego Department of Medicine’s Faculty Mentorship in Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Letendre for receiving the 2026 UC San Diego Department of Medicine’s Faculty Mentorship in Research Award.  This award recognizes faculty that consistently provide their time, expertise and advice to assist in the career development of junior faculty in their research career development.  Dr. Letendre has been an HNRP-CMCR investigator for over 25 years.  He is the Program Director for two training programs the HIV and Other Pandemics (HOPE) Training Program (T32 AI007384) and the Sustained Training in Aging and HIV Research (STAHR) Training Program (R25 MH108389).  He is also a faculty mentor in four other training programs, Training in Research on Addictions in Interdisciplinary NeuroAIDS (T32 DA031098), Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDS (R25 MH081482), the Mentored Research Career Development Program Award in Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program (KL2 TR000099), and the Raising Advancement and Parity for Infectious Disease (RAPID) Program (R25 AI147376).  He has provided mentorship for more than 80 individuals including medical students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral trainees, international scholars and junior faculty.