Congratulations to the the first round of Collaborative Innovation Awardees! The awards support the the work of teams of two or more collaborators pursuing new research questions in HIV biology or pathogenesis. This opportunity was announced as part of the Viral Pathogenesis Core’s Breakthroughs in HIV Research Symposium in October 2021, which was designed to catalyze new collaborations among Third Coast CFAR members.

Identifying the frequency and location of tissue-resident mast cells in both pregnant and nonpregnant women
Ann Carias, PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University
Julie Kim, PhD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University

Gene expression trajectories in KSHV-mediated endothelial cell transformation
Eva Gottwein, PhD, Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University
Rosemary Braun, PhD, Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University

Tracking Single CD8 T Cell Differentiation During HIV Infection in Secondary Lymphoid Tissues
Jun Huang, PhD, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD, Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University

Metabolic modulation of T cell differentiation to regulate HIV latency and reactivation
Vipul Shukla, PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University
Judd Hultquist, PhD, Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University

Pilot Top-Down Proteomics Analysis of Mutant APOBEC3Bs from a Rapidly Progressive Cancer
Chisu Song, PhD, Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University
Rafael Melani, PhD, Chemistry, Northwestern University