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