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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
IAS-NIDA FELLOWSHIP
Encouraging HIV and Drug Use Research
2010 FELLOWS
•Elena Dukhovlinova, Russia
PICTURE
• 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
•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
Photo by M-J Milloy
•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
•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.