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Join the NIDA HIV Research Program for the upcoming HIV Seminar with Dr. Schahram Akbarian, chief of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Division of Psychiatric Epigenomics, for his presentation on "Novel Neurogenomic Techniques to Explore HIV in the Brain."
Dr. Akbarian's laboratory explores the neurogenomics of HIV and substance use in human and mouse brains, including single-molecule and single-cell technologies. He is a recipient of the Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Eva King Killam Award for Outstanding Translational Research of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Judith Silver Memorial award of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He serves on numerous scientific advisory and editorial boards.