THE NNTC COLLECTS, STORE, AND PROVIDE CLINICAL DATA AND WELL CHARACTERIZED BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, INCLUDING POST-MORTEM TISSUE FROM STUDY VOLUNTEERS AND/OR ORGAN DONORS WITH HIV AS WELL AS HIV-NEGATIVE

University Of Texas Med Br Galveston, Galveston TX

Investigators

Abstract

In 1998. the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium was established to support researchers around the world who wish to further NIMH’s understanding of HIV-associated central nervous system dysfunction – including cognitive, neurologic and mental health outcomes. Through core funding from NIMH and The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and supplemental funding from The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) this consortium provides clinical data and ante- and post-mortem biological specimens to investigators interested in HIV-induced neuropathogenesis in the context of anti-retroviral therapy, as well as investigators who are advancing efforts toward a cure for HIV.