The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Weill Cornell Medicine a five-year, $11.6 million grant for research on a link between cannabis and the brains of those living with HIV. The project is the newest component of NIDA’s SCORCH program, which seeks to investigate how substances that might lead to addiction may modify the effects of HIV in the brain, at the level of individual cells.  Read the article here.