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Erica Weber Receives Award of Excellence from the Association of Test Publishers
Erica Weber, MA, will receive an award of excellence from the Association of Test Publishers at the 2010 American Psychological Association Annual Convention for her abstract “Survey of Memory-Related Quality of Life (SMRQoL): Evidence of reliability and validity”. The data presented provide preliminary evidence of reliability and validity of the SMRQoL. The research proved innovative by utilitzing self-report to assess the relationship between cognition and health-related Quality of Life (QoL).
Congratulations to Rujvi Kamat for the award of a Tinker Research Travel Grant!
Rujvi Kamat, a San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology student working at the HNRP, was just awarded a Tinker Research Travel Grant from the UCSD Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. The award will provide funding for a 3-week visit to Hospital de Clinicas- Universidade Federal do Parana in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, where the HNRP has an on-going project (Ron Ellis, PI) examining the NP consequences of HIV infection.
Early HIV Testing Shows Promising Results
Drs. Sheldon Morris and Davey Smith, TMARC investigators, published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine that shows promising results for a relatively new HIV testing method which can identify HIV infection in as little as 10 days following exposure. The study, which enrolled over 3,000 subjects at the University of California, San Diego’s Antiviral Research Center and other participating sites in San Diego County, found that 15 persons who tested negative with the traditional antibody test were found to be HIV positive via the nucleic acid testing (NAT) method, a striking 23% increase in the detection yield. The study further exemplifies that early testing can produce a higher rate of identification of infected individuals, and gives strength to the claim that NAT testing should be used more widely. While NAT testing is widely available and is used to screen the nation’s blood supply, it is not routinely used in clinical care due to its higher cost (approximately $100) and longer delay for test results (up to two weeks).
Full articles about this study can be found at the following news sources:
San Diego Union Tribune
Annals of Internal Medicine
U.S. News & World Report
HNRP Intern Receives Dean's Award!
Alex Liu, an undergraduate at San Diego State University who is completing an internship at the HNRP under the SDSU Career Opportunities in Research (COR) program, received the Dean's Award from the SDSU College of Sciences at SDSU's 4th Annual Student Research Symposium. The award is given to the top two oral presentations in each College, regardless of undergraduate or graduate status. Alex's presentation was "Neuropsychological Functioning Predicts Occupational Attainment in an Indian Cohort," with data provided from the NeuroAIDS in India (T. Marcotte, PI) project. Alex has been invited to compete in the California State University-Wide Student Research Competition, to take place in Fresno in May.
HNRP Experts Invited to Participate in the HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC) Behavioral Sciences Working Group
HNRP Investigators were invited to a neurocognitive assessments focus group as part of an expert panel on how neurocognitive assessments are performed, analyzed and how neurocognitive research is conducted within the NIAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks, and other networks such as the Adolescent Trials Network. These types of working groups develop specific recommendations for community involvement in Division of AIDS-funded HIV Clinical Research Trials, based upon Best Practices document and community consultations. Drs. Ronald Ellis and Robert Heaton will participate in drafting a consensus statement for publication to guide research in this area at the focus group convening in Seattle, Washington in April 2011.