Third Coast Center for AIDS Research

Catalyzing cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary HIV research collaborations in Chicago

Become a member! The Third Coast CFAR offers two types of membership to meet the needs of local faculty and various types of collaborators. Membership is free and registration takes only a few minutes.

Third Coast CFAR funding is targeted towards early-career investigators, established faculty new to HIV research, or new trans-disciplinary collaborations, as well as community organizations, and is managed through the Developmental Core.

The Third Coast CFAR offers a breadth of services through Scientific Cores related to proposal development, participant recruitment, laboratory and specimen access, data analysis, and consultations.

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Third Coast CFAR Members Present at CDPH Provider Conference

The Third Coast CFAR congratulates our members who presented at the Chicago Department of Public Health Syndemic Infectious Disease Bureau’s third annual Provider Conference on November 5, 2025. This year’s theme was, “From Fragmentation to Integration: Unified Approaches to Syndemic Infectious Diseases.”