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The Johns Hopkins University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has announced the recipients of the 2022 Scholar Grant Awards. This award is intended to help strengthen junior faculty's ability to secure independent NIH research funding, typically through Rand K series awards. In addition to Dr. Steven Clipman, two other members of the ID Division were […]
The Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research provides pilot grants to faculty in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing to enable and support HIV/AIDS research projects. Junior faculty in other JHU schools are eligible to apply if the proposal meets all other criteria. The primary purpose of these awards is to strengthen the […]
Eileen Scully and Jeffrey Tornheim, assistant professors in the Division of Infectious Diseases, received CFAR Scholar Awards from the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research. The program provides pilot grants for HIV/AIDS research, with the primary purpose of securing independent NIH funding. Eileen's study: Sex Specificity of Innate Immune Activation and Metabolism in HIV Jeffrey's study: Evaluation of a […]
The Executive Board of Unitaid, the Geneva-based UN agency promoting innovations to end global pandemics, has approved a new grant to the Aurum Institute of South Africa, Johns Hopkins University and other partners to improve the uptake of treatment to prevent tuberculosis (TB), the world’s leading infectious disease killer. The $59 million grant, called IMPAACT4TB, […]