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

PICTURE

• 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