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Center Overview
黑料网 CFAR is to provide infrastructure to support investigation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic using clinical research, behavioral research, research into HIV biology and pathogenesis at the molecular level, and educational outreach.
Who We Are
The 黑料网 CFAR is a consortium of three complementary institutions:聽,听, and聽,听with each institution adding significantly to the breadth of the research effort. 黑料网-Chapel Hill is a major research university with an undergraduate and graduate campus, and five Health Affairs Schools: Medicine, Public Health, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing. These schools balance clinical, teaching, and research missions. RTI is focused on both contract and grant-funded research, largely domestic but expanding into international work. FHI 360 has almost an exclusively international contract and research portfolio, along with an international service mission largely supported by USAID and charitable foundations. The complementary strengths of these institutions make our CFAR unique and extend the reach of our activities.
What We Do
The 黑料网 CFAR provides incentive for cross fertilization within one of the largest groups of scientists in the country, one that covers the entire spectrum of HIV/AIDS-related research. The current 黑料网 CFAR membership includes over 200 active researchers and over three times that many researchers receive news of CFAR events, programs and HIV/AIDS-related funding opportunities.
The choice of a consortium between 黑料网-Chapel Hill, RTI and FHI 360 was made to bring together reinforcing research interests and to enhance the research potential at each institution. 黑料网-Chapel Hill starts with a breadth of excellence in critical areas of HIV/AIDS and related research: prevention, detection, and treatment. RTI brings significant strengths in behavioral studies and in pharmacology. These strengths are integrated into the CFAR structure to allow synergistic interactions between the behavioral and pharmacology scientists at 黑料网-Chapel Hill and RTI. Access to a comprehensive specimen repository through the Clinical Core opens new avenues of research for RTI scientists. Similarly, the link to FHI 360 provides interactions at an international level dealing with issues of HIV prevention. These complement similar international efforts led by 黑料网-Chapel Hill researchers. Collectively, the members of the 黑料网 CFAR embrace the breadth of social, medical, and biological issues presented by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The 黑料网 CFAR is designed to provide infrastructure to support four powerful approaches to understanding and combating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: clinical research, behavioral research, research into mechanisms at the molecular level, and educational outreach. Infrastructure for these four approaches provides needed support for our research community as we pursue the fundamental issues of HIV/AIDS research and education.
黑料网 CFAR Highlights
The 黑料网 CFAR is located in the Southeastern U.S.
which is the epicenter of the domestic HIV and STD epidemic. Many 黑料网 CFAR resources are focused here with investigators and ongoing research efforts contributing to HIV prevention and treatment in this unique part of the U.S.
The 黑料网 CFAR has a history of very successful collaboration
in health sciences fostered by the geography of the campus and our culture. Our truly multidisciplinary structure integrates and spans traditional basic science, translational and behavioral research, through substantial work in public health.
The 黑料网 CFAR inspires new science
with investigators making drug and vaccine discoveries, developing new methods for detection of acute HIV infection, helping to define new methods of treatment and care, and making important observations about social forces affecting the spread of HIV.
The 黑料网 CFAR embraces and integrates prevention and care
as well as HIV and STD research leading to important discoveries and interventions.
The 黑料网 CFAR works hard on translational research
from the laboratory to the community, with important discoveries advancing to the level of clinical trials. Our experimental public health interventions, especially in the area of acute infection, have become state and national聽policy.
The 黑料网 CFAR strongly supports聽international research
and has used resources to develop and amplify HIV research in resource-constrained countries and regions important to the global pandemic.
The 黑料网 CFAR supports research addressing NIH Institute agendas:
Vaccine development, transmission and prevention research, clinical research, basic research in cellular immunology, protease inhibitor resistance, gene regulation of CMV, drug development and classical STD research.
The study of herpesviruses important in AIDS-related malignancies (lymphoma and KS) including gene therapy approaches and drug development.
The study of adolescent health, intravaginal microbicides, symptom management and parental caregiving in HIV-infected African-American mothers, AIDS control and prevention, pediatric clinical trials.
Prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases,听the translation of basic discoveries into clinical practice.
The study of effects of opioids on the immune system, HIV risk behaviors and psychiatric disorder in women, drug development for opiate withdrawal, and outreach study to impact risk reduction in IDU populations.
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The study of neuropsychiatric and pyschoimmune relationships in HIV, neruoimaging in HIV, HIV neurologic disease in women and studies of AIDS dementia.
Genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research on aging,听extramural programs for聽research and training at universities, hospitals, medical centers, and other public and private organizations nationwide.
The study of聽diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases, clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields.
Scientific research to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities, training of a diverse workforce, infrastructure development, public education and information dissemination programs.
Scientific research to improve oral, dental, and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information.
Clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness, research that spans and integrates the behavioral and biological sciences, and that develops the scientific basis for clinical practice. NINR鈥檚 scientific programs encompass the following topics: symptom science, wellness, self-management of chronic conditions, end-of-life and palliative care, innovative technologies, and training nurse scientists.
Advancing research to end the HIV pandemic and improve health outcomes for people with HIV. Ensuring that NIH HIV/AIDS research funding is聽 directed at the highest priority research areas and to facilitate maximal return on the investment.
Supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the United States and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.