Claudia Martinez
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Cohort II CFAR Adelante Scholar, Claudia Martinez (University of Miami) has been awarded the prestigious Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The Avenir Award, which recognizes unique approaches to medical research and aims to create new avenues of investigation, will support her research study on the effects of cannabis use on cardiovascular health among people living with HIV. Learn more about Dr. Martinez’s project in this University of Miami press release.