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Article: Mount Sinai Receives $8 Million Grant To Help Fight HIV
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- The Culvert Chronicles
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- June 26, 2008
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Susan Morgello, MD, Professor of Pathology and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has just been awarded an $8,603,251 grant by The National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health for Mount Sinai's research for The Manhattan HIV Brain Bank (MHBB). The grant was awarded this June and extends until April 2013.
"The new grant award will help Mount Sinai to continue to make scientific discoveries, leading to cures for nervous system disorders caused by and associated with HIV/AIDS," said Dr. Morgello. "We hope to better understand how HIV impacts the nervous system, and assist other research programs in understanding the pathogenesis of HIV-related neurological ...