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-Chapel Hill Named National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site

December 21, 2023
-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. ’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied...

A Community With a Fierce Commitment to Ending HIV: The CFAR Turns 25 in December

December 5, 2023
This article has been reposted from ’s Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease website. To see the full article, please click here.   1) What is CFAR? Swanstrom: “ CFAR is one of 19 NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs across the US that promote high quality AIDS...

2023-2024 CFAR Developmental Core Traditional RFP

October 4, 2023
The below Traditional Developmental Award funding opportunity is an open solicitation for proposals on any HIV-related topic in alignment with NIH funding priorities. In addition, the Developmental Core periodically posts Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) in CFAR priority areas. A NOSI for a Secondary Data Analysis of specific databases...

CFAR’s HIV/STD Core Associate Director, De Paris Receives Grant to Study HIV Vaccination in Infant Disease Models

July 7, 2023
The 7.5-million grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will help researchers pinpoint specific factors that lead to a better immune response through HIV vaccination. Kristina de Paris, PhD, Associate Director, CFAR’s HIV/STD Core, and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and colleagues were...

Highlights from the 2023 HPTN Annual Meeting

June 21, 2023
CFAR was well presented at the 2023 HPTN Annual Meeting! CFAR’s Associate Director, the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN’s) Principle Investigator Myron Cohen, and CFAR’s Clinical Core Director Joseph Eron provided key leadership roles during the 2023 HPTN Annual Meeting in Washington DC. The week-long event gathered more than 800 registered...

CFAR Secondary Data Analysis NOSI

May 31, 2023
The CFAR Traditional Developmental Award RFP guidance for proposals should be used unless otherwise noted in this NOSI CFAR Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Request for Proposals for Collaborative Clinical-Social Science Secondary Data Analyses (SDA) Awards The University of North Carolina Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) is soliciting proposals...

CFAR’s Biostatistics Core director Dr. Michael Hudgens honored with the 2023 Larsh Award

May 26, 2023
Michael Hudgens, PhD, is the winner of the 2023 Larsh Award. Established in 1997, the John E. Larsh Jr. Award for Mentorship recognizes a current member of the Gillings School faculty who best exemplifies the qualities of mentoring and commitment to students that Dr. Larsh embodied and valued so highly....

Dennis Research Group Releases New White Paper On Molecular HIV Epidemiology

May 26, 2023
The Dennis Research Group in the School of Medicine has released a new white paper titled, “Revitalizing Community Engagement in the Public Health Use of Molecular HIV Epidemiology.” The paper is a product of the Ethics of HIV Molecular Surveillance Project, funded through an administrative supplement to the NIAID-funded R01 Phylodynamics Response, Monitoring, &...

CDC- Collaboration Yields Potential Long-term HIV Protection

February 23, 2023
Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, MSc, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, led a successful effort to create an injectable implant that can release effective HIV PrEP medications into the body for six months in non-human primates. For people at high risk of contracting HIV, missing doses of their daily HIV prevention pills...

Alumni Gift Will Fund New Clinic in Malawi, Enhancing Research and Care for Reproductive Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections

February 23, 2023
February 22, 2023 A generous gift from Hyman and Marietta Bielsky will fund a new clinic in Malawi for reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections. The new clinic will replace a 50-year-old infrastructure for sexually transmitted disease research and care, the place where ’s global health work began. Long-lived friendships are special connections with those...

Dr. Jeff Stringer Awarded Third Grant from Gates’ Foundation

July 28, 2022
In 2018, Jeff received the first Fetal Age Machine Learning Initiative (FAMLI) grant, a feasibility investment concerned primarily with automated estimation of gestational age. It focused upon generation of specific ultrasound datasets to train machine learning models and on scoping additional functions and features of an AI-enabled ultrasound system. In 2019,...

Names 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

July 11, 2022
This story was originally posted on July 5, 2022 on the School Of Medicine Newsroom website, which is linked HERE. Mauro Calabrese, PhD, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, and Adam Hantman, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the sixth installment of this annual School of Medicine award. The...