{"id":4593,"date":"2015-06-10T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/?page_id=4593"},"modified":"2015-11-18T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:00:57","slug":"urban-arch-newsletter-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/urban-arch-newsletter-5\/","title":{"rendered":"URBAN ARCH Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volume 2, Issue 2<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">April 2015 &#8211; June 2015<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Check out the current issue of URBAN ARCH News, the quarterly newsletter bringing you news based on the latest URBAN ARCH and related research.<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"2015 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting Highlights\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/2015-urban-arch-annual-meeting-highlights\/\"><strong><span color=\"#3089c2\">2015 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting Highlights<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN_ARCH-2015_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"636\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4596\" alt=\"URBAN_ARCH-2015_web\" src=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN_ARCH-2015_web-636x295.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN_ARCH-2015_web-636x295.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN_ARCH-2015_web-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN_ARCH-2015_web.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fourth URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting held April 28-29, 2015 brought together approximately 55 investigators, staff, Scientific Advisory Panel members, and other collaborators to discuss the progress and future direction of the URBAN ARCH Consortium. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/2015-urban-arch-annual-meeting-highlights\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">here<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/02\/Repository-USE.jpg\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><a title=\"News Archive\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/homepage\/news-archive\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;\">In the News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">New Grant: Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/contact\/#BostonCohort\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Richard Saitz <\/span><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/contact\/#Fellows\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Theresa Kim <\/span><\/a>on receiving an <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/grants\/supplements\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NIAAA Administrative Supplement<\/span><\/a> to examine the effects of alcohol and opioid consumption on bone turnover markers (BTMs) in our Boston ARCH study.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2013\/06\/elena_PS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"78\" height=\"108\" class=\"  wp-image-758 alignleft\" alt=\"elena_PS\" src=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2013\/06\/elena_PS-459x636.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2013\/06\/elena_PS-459x636.jpg 459w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2013\/06\/elena_PS-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2013\/06\/elena_PS.jpg 1548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/spotlight-on-elena-blokhina\/\">S<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/spotlight-on-elena-blokhina\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">potlight on..Elena Blokhina<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #000000;\">In this issue, we inte<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rview Elena Blokhina,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MD, PhD, Co-Investigator of the Russia ARCH Cohort and Deputy Director of the Valdman Institute of Pharmacology at First St. Petersburg Pavlov State Medical University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On The Ground<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the buttons to see what the URBAN ARCH Cohorts and Cores have been working on.<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" style=\"font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: middle;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6#admincore\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Admin Core\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1723\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Admin-Core1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6#bdmcore\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"BDM Core\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1725\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/BDM-Core.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6#uganda\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Uganda Cohort\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1726\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Uganda-Cohort.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6#russia\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Russia Cohort\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1727\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Russia-Cohort.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-6#boston\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Boston Cohort\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1728\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Boston-Cohort.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/strong><strong>URBAN ARCH at CPDD and RSA!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN-ARCH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"173\" height=\"114\" class=\"  wp-image-4632 alignleft\" alt=\"URBAN ARCH\" src=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN-ARCH-636x422.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN-ARCH-636x422.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN-ARCH-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/URBAN-ARCH.png 1823w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/span><strong style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Several URBAN ARCH investigators will be in attendance at CPDD and RSA this month presenting on projects related to substance use in populations with HIV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/college-on-problems-of-drug-dependence-scientific-meeting-2015\/\">here<\/a> for URBAN ARCH at CPDD information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/research-society-on-alcoholism-scientific-meeting-2015\/\">here<\/a> for URBAN ARCH at RSA information.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Publications\/Presentations\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/publications\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New URBAN ARCH Publications<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edelman EJ, Cheng DM, Krupitsky EM, Bridden C, Quinn E, Walley AY, Lioznov D, Blokhina B, Zvartau E, Samet JH. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25413642\">Heroin Use and HIV Disease Progression: Results from a Pilot Study of a Russian Cohort<\/a>. AIDS Behav. 2014 Nov 21. [Epub ahead of print].<\/li>\n<li>Parry CD, Morojele NK, Myers BJ, Kekwaletswe CT, Manda SO, Sorsdahl K, Ramjee G, Hahn JA, Rehm J, Shuper PA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25212696\">Efficacy of an alcohol-focused intervention for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV treatment outcomes: A randomised controlled trial protocol<\/a>. BMC Infect Dis. 2014 Sep 12;14:500. PMCID: PMC4174635<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Selected Funding Opportunities\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/selected-funding-opportunities\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Selected Funding Opportunities<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Methodologies to Enhance Understanding of HIV Associated Social Determinants (R01)\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/rfa-files\/RFA-MH-16-200.html\">(RFA-MH-16-200)<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>(R21) <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/rfa-files\/RFA-MH-16-205.html\">(RFA-MH-16-205) <\/a>National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\n<ul>\n<li>Application Due Date(s): August 19, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Role of Exosomes in HIV Neuropathogenesis (R01)\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/rfa-files\/RFA-MH-16-100.html\">(RFA-MH-16-100)<\/a>\u00a0<strong>(R21)<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/rfa-files\/RFA-MH-16-110.html\">(RFA-MH-16-110) <\/a>National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Application\n<ul>\n<li>Application Due Date(s): September 02, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click <a title=\"Selected Funding Opportunities\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/selected-funding-opportunities\/\">here<\/a> for more funding announcements related to HIV and alcohol research.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"Events and Conferences\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/upcoming-events-and-conferences\/\">Events and Conferences<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanarch.org\/?page_id=1216\"><\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Please email <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12px;\" href=\"mailto:Carly.Bridden@bmc.org\">Carly Bridden<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"> if you will be attending any these meetings, so we can connect you with our investigators.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvent.com\/events\/2015-nida-international-forum\/event-summary-e7cb0d090bc04a9a98d52e7569a15a1f.aspx\">NIDA International Forum<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpdd.org\/\">College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)<\/a>: <\/strong>June 12 \u2013 18, 2015; Phoenix, Arizona, US<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsoa.org\/2015meet-indexPre1.htm\"><strong>Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA)<\/strong><\/a>: June 20-24, 2015; San Antonio, TX, USA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias2015.org\/\"><strong>International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0July 19-22 2015; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eecaac2016.org\/en\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth\u00a0Conference on HIV\/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia<\/a>: <\/strong>March 23-26, 2016; Moscow, Russia\n<ul>\n<li>Poster and thesis submission deadline: <strong>September 20, 2015\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click <a title=\"Events and Conferences\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/upcoming-events-and-conferences\/\">here<\/a> for more events and conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Featured Resources<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Complete baseline data for the Uganda ARCH, Boston ARCH, and Russia ARCH cohorts are now available. See below for selected baseline characteristics:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/Uganda-ARCH-Table-1-for-URBAN-ARCH-Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Uganda ARCH baseline\u00a0characteristics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/Russia-ARCH-Table-1-for-URBAN-ARCH-Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Russia ARCH baseline\u00a0<span>characteristics<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2015\/06\/Boston-ARCH-Table-1-for-URBAN-ARCH-Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Boston ARCH\u00a0baseline\u00a0<span>characteristics<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- BEGIN: Constant Contact Email List Form Button --><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a class=\"button\" style=\"background-color: #05b8cc; display: inline-block; color: #000000; text-shadow: none; mozborderradius: 20px; webkitborderradius: 20px; borderradius: 20px; border: #5b5b5b 1px solid; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/d.jsp?llr=d8srrpqab&amp;p=oi&amp;m=1117213215587&amp;sit=8bxca9wib&amp;f=12042cd4-6778-4706-8799-0f63fcf2c36c\">Join Our Newsletter List!<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Publications\/Presentations\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/publications\/#Newsletter\">Archived Issues<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information or to be removed from this list, please contact: <a href=\"mailto:Carly.Bridden@bmc.org\">Carly Bridden<\/a>, URBAN ARCH Administrative Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 9px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">U24AA020778 \u00d7 U24AA020779 \u00d7 U01AA020776 \u00d7 U01AA020780 \u00d7 U01AA021989 \u00d7 U01AA0207<\/span>84<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 2, Issue 2 April 2015 &#8211; June 2015 Check out the current issue of URBAN ARCH News, the quarterly newsletter bringing you news based on the latest URBAN ARCH and related research. 2015 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting Highlights The fourth URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting held April 28-29, 2015 brought together approximately 55 investigators, staff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10451,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4593\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}