Hospitals Get $6 Million for HIV Brain Bank

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Hospitals Get $6 Million for HIV Brain Bank

Boston Globe Online (12/15/98)

The National Institutes of Health will give a $6 million grant to three New York City hospitals to study the neurological effects of HIV on the brain. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center will in turn create the Manhattan HIV Brain Bank, a collection of brains from people who died of AIDS. Researchers from around the country will be able to apply to the brain bank for tissue samples. Dr. Susan Morgello, the principle investigator of the project, explained that "this provides a really needed basic resource for research." The program will attempt to recruit about 90 people a year for the brain donations, asking patients in the final stages of AIDS to undergo neurological and psychiatric evaluation and to donate their brains when they die. The researchers hope to identify whether HIV can latently infect the brain and nervous system, to determine the impact of brain infection with HIV, and to devise new drug therapies against HIV and HIV- associated disorders.

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