Share of Cost, UF Receives $4.7 Million To Study Marijuana’s Role In Immunity Among HIV-positive Adolescents
Tuesday, Mar. 1st 2011 6:24 AM
HIV experts at the University of Florida, along with colleagues at the University of South Florida and the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded $4.7 million by the National Institutes of Health to study how the complex interplay between marijuana use and HIV infection can influence the development of neurological disorders in adolescents.
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