Davey Smith, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Health System is one of three recipients of the 2012 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research. This prestigious award, announced today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, is intended to stimulate high-impact research that may lead to groundbreaking opportunities for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in drug abusers. … Read the full story from the UCSD Newsroom

More about Dr. Smith’s work:
- Projects in progress with National Institutes of Health funding
- Feature story (2008): New 5-Year Grant Is a Boon for Major UCSD Study on HIV and the Brain
- Early Intervention Program, UCSD Antiviral Research Center
- Translational Virology Core, UCSD Center for AIDS Research
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