“UC San Diego Health Joins Leading National Network Targeting Depressive Illnesses,” features Igor Grant, MD.

Dr. Grant through his work as Director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center Program (HNRP), which includes the California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network (CNTN), the Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center (TMARC), the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC), the CNS HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Effects Research (CHARTER) and the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), has contributed to a large body of research addressing HIV neurobiology, substance abuse and treatment-resistant depression.

Now that the UC San Diego Health has been designated a member of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC), a consortium working to accelerate research in these areas, he as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine can more directly apply research to further treatment for individuals suffering from these maladies.

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