NIMH|National Institute of Mental Health

The National NeuroHIV Tissue Consortium (NNTC) supports HIV and neurological research by providing high-quality clinical data, biospecimens, and post-mortem tissues. This initiative will sustain and modernize the NNTC as a national resource for studying NeuroHIV, aging-related conditions, antiretroviral therapy, and HIV cure efforts.

The overarching goal of this concept is to encourage research that aims to better understand the real-world effectiveness of rapid-acting psychotropic interventional drugs (RAPIDs) in heterogenous patient populations and generate the actionable evidence needed by healthcare systems to guide broad clinical implementation.

This concept aims to continue the Data Resource and Administrative Coordination Center (DRACC) of the Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes (SSPsyGene) Consortium to support ongoing needs for data production and analysis that will continue beyond the current DRACC project end date and to complete consortium studies.

This concept seeks to support the NIMH AIDS Research Centers program, including D-ARCs and ARCs. The Centers aim to capitalize on their coordinated infrastructure to advance high-impact, interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS research, including at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and mental health, that is relevant to the NIMH DAR mission.