ias-nida research fellowship encouraging hiv and drug use research announcement of 2010 fellows nora...
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IAS-NIDA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2010 FELLOWS
Nora Volkow & Julio Montaner
23 July 2010
• Elena Dukhovlinova, Russia
• Project: A study of genetic divergence of transmitted HIV-1 strains among newly and recently infected injection drug users of St. Petersburg, Russia
• Mentor: Ronald Ivar Swanstrom, Professor at the Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, US.
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS
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• Jonathan Claude Ipser, South Africa.
• Project: Executive function and frontostriatal deficits in HIV and methamphetamine
• Mentor: Igor Grant, Professor and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California in San Diego, US.
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS
• Adhi Nurhidayat, Indonesia
• Project: Risky behaviors and psychiatric symptoms among HIV infected drug users at three hospitals in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Mentor: David Metzger, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Penn Centre for AIDS Research, US.
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS
• Brandon Marshall, Canada
• Project: Examining structural vulnerabilities to injection drug use and HIV infection among marginalized young people: An approach using complex systems modeling and social epidemiology
• Mentor: Sandro Galea, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, US.
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS
Photo by M-J Milloy
• Shusen Liu, China
• Project: An Evaluation of AIDS/STD Transmission Risks among Urine-Testing Positive Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Clinics in China
• Mentor, Zunyou Wu, Director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention in China.
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS