HIV grant opportunity for junior scientists interested in NeuroAIDS

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Dear Colleagues, I am writing to let you know about a grant funding opportunity we are offering to junior scientists interested in neuroAIDS disorders, through an NIH-sponsored summer program, the Mount Sinai Institute for NeuroAIDS Disparities (MSINAD). As we have done in prior summers, we are looking to award four, $20,000 grants to young scientists who will pursue research pertinent to the impact of HIV on nervous system behavior, function and/or biology in minority populations. Details of the program, and a list of prior year's recipients, their projects, and mentors, can be found at our website: www.msinad.org. MSINAD is a summer training program operating from mid June to late July, 2012 in New York City. Its focus is to provide young scientists (at the post-doctoral or early junior faculty levels) with a 6-week didactic and research training experience focusing on bridging the behavioral and translational neuroscience of neuroAIDS disorders, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities in disease manifestations and pathogenesis. The curriculum is tailored to the levels and interests of the recipients, and draws upon faculty from multiple institutions in New York. Upon completion of the program, scholars will return to their sponsoring institution with $20,000 pilot grants to pursue their research, and visit MSINAD the next summer for a symposium in which they will present their progress in research. We strongly encourage applications from under-represented minority scientists and trainees. More details of this program are available on our website, www.msinad.org . Please do not hesitate to contact me at: desiree.byrd@mssm.edu if you have any questions, and please encourage any young individuals who might be interested in working with you to submit applications! We are looking forward to being able to offer a high-quality educational program, and to stimulate multi-disciplinary approaches to the highly complex problems entailed in HIV-associated nervous system disorders. All the best in the New Year, Desiree Desiree Byrd, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pathology Mt Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, MHBB 1134 New York, NY 10029 212-241-3782

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