UNC-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. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied history of caring for patients … Read more

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

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 UNC CFAR priority areas. A NOSI for a Secondary Data Analysis of specific databases shares the timetable of this … Read more

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, UNC CFAR’s HIV/STD Core, and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and colleagues were awarded a grant for their … Read more

UNC CFAR was well presented at the 2023 HPTN Annual Meeting! UNC CFAR’s Associate Director, the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN’s) Principle Investigator Myron Cohen, and UNC 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 in-person and virtual attendees to … Read more

The UNC 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 for small grants for up … Read more

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. Larsh was a health behavior … Read more

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 UNC Ethics of HIV Molecular Surveillance Project, funded through an administrative supplement to the NIAID-funded R01 Phylodynamics Response, Monitoring, & Prevention of Transmission (HIV PROMPT; … Read more

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 can have big consequences. In … Read more

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 UNC’s global health work began. Long-lived friendships are special connections with those who knew you back when. … Read more

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, a second FAMLI grant extended … Read more

This story was originally posted on July 5, 2022 on the UNC 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 UNC School of Medicine has … Read more