Igor Grant

Igor Grant
M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)

Igor Grant, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Grant served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry from 2014-2019. He is Director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program (HNRP), which includes the California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network (CNTN), the Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center (TMARC), the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC), the CNS HIV Anti-Retroviral Therapy Effects Research (CHARTER) and the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR). Dr. Grant is the founding Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society and founding co-editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior.

Three decades of HNRP trainees meet at INS in 2025


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Dr. Grant celebrates with some trainees from the past three decades at the February, 2025 meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in New Orleans. Pictured from left to right are: Tom Marcotte, David Moore, Lily Kamalyan, Lillian Ham, Igor Grant, Jennifer Manly, Crystal Wang, Mariana Cherner, Jennifer Iudicello, Jake Rattigan, and Victoria Chentsova.

Dr. Grant honors JoAnn Nallinger Grant, RN at ASPEN Conference

Dr. Grant contributed to the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition's (ASPEN) Nutrition Science & Practice Conference with the below video honoring his late wife, JoAnn Nalliger Grant, RN (pictured). The conference took place on March 22-25, 2025.

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Dr. Grant congratulates Lily Kamalyan on receiving her PhD in Clinical Psychology on 6/16/24

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Dr. Grant congratulates Lily Kamalyan on receiving her PhD in Clinical Psychology during the UCSD graduation ceremony on June 16, 2024. Dr. Kamalyan’s thesis entitled "Associations between neighborhood vulnerabilities and neuropsychiatric outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse cohort of people aging with HIV” used geospatial methods of combining Census data and satellite imagery data with clinical outcomes as well as considered the impact of COVID-19 as a community stressor. Dr. Kamalyan is continuing her postdoctoral work at Columbia University. Congratulations Dr. Kamalyan!

 

Igor Grant MD Endowed Award for Academic Excellence and Biomedical Research

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On June 3, 2023, Dr Grant presented the Igor Grant MD Endowed Award for Academic Excellence and Biomedical Research to UCSD School of Medicine graduating students Tonya Lee & Jennifer Bu.

Both students demonstrated exceptional achievement in their academic careers at UC San Diego. Dr. Bu (left) did her research on mechanisms and treatment of certain hereditary corneal eye diseases. Dr. Lee (right) examined psychosocial aspects of thyroid eye disease. Both doctors Bu and Lee plan to pursue their careers in ophthalmology.

 

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