AIDSVu, an interactive online map illustrating characteristics of the HIV epidemic in the United States, has released the first-ever publicly available data and interactive maps of PrEP use by state. The data visualize the growth in PrEP use by year, age, and sex. In its eighth year, AIDSVu continues its mission to make HIV data [...]
Mai Pho, MD, a CFAR administrative supplement recipient, with her partner Wiley D. Jenkins, PhD, MPH have been awarded a $1.3 million federal grant to study the Illinois state epidemic affecting the 16 southernmost counties, or the Illinois Delta Region, for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Medicine. The [...]
John Schneider, MD, MPH Richard D'Aquila, MD Nanette Benbow, MAS John Schneider, Director of the CFAR Developmental Core, has been awarded an R01 from NIAID for the project Next-Generation Phylodynamics-Targeted Partner Service Models for Combined HIV Prevention (P2M). This multi-PI grant includes Nanette Benbow, [...]
Entering its 11th year, Queertopia is an annual LGBTQ+ academic conference organized by Northwestern University’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association. The conference features research across disciplines and fosters critical dialogue on topics related to gender and sexuality. We are currently soliciting abstracts of research for this year's conference, Queertopia 2018 Queer Community, Queer Care. Call for [...]
The University of Washington Department of Global Health and the Center for AIDS and STD are accepting applications for the 26th Annual Principles of STD/HIV Research Course. The course will be held July 23 - August 2, 2018, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Please join us for 2 weeks of intensive cross-disciplinary [...]
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will hold the Eighteenth Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials on July 8-19, 2018, in Warrenton, Virginia. The program provides a thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers [...]
The First HIV MUCOSAL SYSTEMS MEETING is to be held April 29 - May 2, 2018, in Santa Rosa, California. The goal of this meeting is to provide a much-needed platform for international interchange on important topics relating to HIV interactions with mucosal systems. Sessions include: an overview session describing HIV relevant mucosal, mucosal innate and [...]
The planning committee for the HIV Implementation Science Workshop convened at NIH in Rockville, MD on January 31. The diverse group of experts and key stakeholders met to prepare for the Workshop to be held April 10-11, 2018 in Chicago. The workshop is led by Brian Mustanski and Nanette Benbow at Northwestern and Stef Baral [...]
Third Coast Center for AIDS Research would like to congratulate Mojgan Naghavi, PhD, associate professor of Microbiology-Immunology, and Qingqing Chai, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Naghavi’s lab, for having identified and inhibited a molecular process that can lead to neurodegeneration in patients with HIV, a study published in Nature Communications. As studies in the past [...]
On March 22, 2018 the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) will host an Inter-CFAR workshop entitled “Partnerships between HBCUs and CFARs – Addressing the Underrepresentation of African American Investigators in HIV/AIDS”. This Workshop is intended to foster synergistic partnerships between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and CFARs concentrating on understanding and addressing the [...]