Myron S. Cohen, MD, director of UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, and Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, have received a seven-year award from the National Institutes of Health for leadership of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) in collaboration with FHI 360. The first year of support is $21,388,000.
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group, co-led by Joseph J. Eron, MD, chief of the division of infectious diseases, is also receiving continuing NIAID funding. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is part of the National Institutes of Health.
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