AIDS Research Centers Program
Overview
The NIMH AIDS Research Centers Program seeks to foster a synergistic approach to research on mental health issues of HIV infection. Its goal is to encourage the application of multiple scientific perspectives and approaches to stimulate inter- and multi-disciplinary collaboration and coordination. NIMH AIDS Research Centers are broadly based investigative endeavors, encompassing or supporting research in a variety of areas including biological, biomedical, behavioral, neuroscience, prevention, clinical sciences, and services research.
Areas of Emphasis
- Clarify the impact of new biomedical technologies (e.g., microbicides, vaccines, rapid tests, genetic advances) on HIV risk behaviors.
- Foster dissemination, translation, and operational research on ways to implement and enhance long-term maintenance behavior change.
- Promote the global adoption of primary preventive interventions.
- Identify molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying HIV-associated dementia, and develop therapeutic agents to prevent or treat the dementia.
- Identify host and HIV viral genetics that render susceptibility or protection to neuronal dysfunction.
- Identify/characterize HIV-associated cognitive or motor dysfunction and assess it in the context of mental illness and HIV-associated comorbidities.
Contact
Dianne M. Rausch, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, CMHRA
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6218, MSC 9619
301-443-7281, drausch@mail.nih.gov
