Request for Funding

Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2001

Mentor: Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Department: Neurology

Room number: F 2.302

Mail Code: 9036

Phone number: 86721

E-mail: Ramon.Diaz-arrastia@UTSouthwestern.edu

Project title: Texas Repository for AIDS neuropathogenesis research

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): 1098 40900

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects) patient-based research

Brief Description of Project: Dennis Burns has collected several hundred autopsies from patients dying of AIDS, and he has pathology on brains, spinal cords, and in many cases peripheral nerves. A group of patients involved in the National Neuro-AIDS tissue consortium will also be used. The project aims to determine whether genetic factors such as APOE4, IL-1A*2, and others, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease, are also involved in a HIV dementia, myelopathy, and peripheral neuropathy.

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