Pilot Award Applications Due Full Applications Due February 6, 2017 Pilot awards are intended for key preliminary studies in HIV-related basic, clinical, or behavioral research that will enable new NIH grant submissions and to stimulate cross-institutional and/or cross-disciplinary collaborations. A proposal must be for a new project or idea that is distinct from any currently [...]

Funding Opportunity: Phylodynamic Tracking of HIV Transmission (R01) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-048.html Application Due Date: March 15, 2017 Purpose and Research Objectives The purpose of this FOA is to support innovative research to develop strategies to identify and target emerging or expanding HIV transmission clusters in near real-time using phylodynamic tracking and modeling. The long-term objective is to [...]

Funding Opportunity: Nicotinic Immune Modulation in the Presence of HIV-1 Infection (R01) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-17-020.html Application Due Date: January 17, 2017 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than twice as many HIV+ patients smoke relative to the general population. Tobacco smokers with HIV+ infection experience increased HIV pathogenesis and disease progression, and have more [...]

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-16-018.html Collaborative Consortia for the Study of HIV-Associated Cancers: U.S. and Low-and Middle-Income Country Partnerships (U54) Application Due Date: December 20, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCC) has been awarded a two-year supplement to its Cancer Center Support Grant that will provide funding for individual or collaborative pilot projects focusing on non-AIDS defining cancers (NADCs) that are now a problem in HIV patients, particularly those who are older. The purpose of these awards is [...]

Funding Opportunity Announcement: Evaluation of a New Specimen Biorepository Utility Providing Access to External Investigators to Pedigreed Specimens for Collaborative Research with the DAIDS ACTG Network Deadline: September 30, 2016 I. Introduction The National Institutes of Health/Division of AIDS (NIH/DAIDS) and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Network would like to increase non-network and international [...]

Seven opportunities for funding in the H3Africa initiative are due for release in July - August 2016. African collaborators are encouraged to review regulatory requirements for their organizations now so they are prepared to submit applications later this year.  What can you be doing NOW?  -          Complete your institutional and personal registrations.  In order to apply [...]