The Journal of the International Society (JIAS) has issued a call for abstracts proposing articles for a supplement of the publication entitled "Application and Innovation in Implementation Science Methods for HIV Prevention."

The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN) seeks collaborative research projects to develop novel point-of-care technologies.

A new open-access supplemental issue published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) examines key findings and takeaways from National Institutes of Health-funded EHE projects.

The TC CFAR congratulates our members who presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) on March 9-12, 2025, in San Francisco!

The PrEP4Teens campaign, partially funded by the TC CFAR, was awarded the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) 2025 Dr. Virginia Bishop Community-Academic Research Partnership Award.

TC CFAR early career investigator Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD, presented his HIV digital intervention research at the CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network (SBSRN) meeting Feb. 26 – 28, 2025, in Bethesda, MD.

The NUCATS Translational Science Pilot Awards program seeks proposals for highly innovative, multi-disciplinary pilot projects that will advance translational science. The application deadline is March 15, 2025.

Applications are open for ISCI's Visiting Scholars in HIV Implementation Science Program, which aims to strengthen academic-community partnerships through implementation research to help end the HIV epidemic.

The NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials provides an advanced course in planning, designing, and conducting high-impact randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions.

The NUCATS Mentored Research Career Development Program in Clinical and Translational Science (K12, formerly KL2) is designed to train investigators to drive future innovation and implement effective clinical and translational research. 

ISCI's Practitioner-Oriented Implementation Science Education (POISE) training program is designed for HIV prevention and care practitioners to gain training on implementation science and innovative tools that can be applied to real-world practice.

The Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV has been updated for immunizations by the National Institutes of Health, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

The Johns Hopkins University CFAR announces request for applications for the CFAR Africure program, which will award five grants of $200,000 for HIV cure research.

Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD, is an associate professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding how the host immune system responds to HIV infection.

The Center for Innovative Point of Care Diagnostics in HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN) multidisciplinary grant is led by contact principal investigator Chad Achenbach, MD, MPH.

Since 2020, 46 faculty and affiliate members reviewed applications for Pilot Awards, Community Collaborative Awards and other mechanisms, or participated in a mock review for TC CFAR members preparing applications to the NIH. 

With his new grant funded by the NIH, Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD, will conduct innovative research to examine whether giving a smaller initial dose of an HIV vaccine can make it work better in the long run.

The Reunion Project released its comprehensive report on the recent town hall forum for HIV long-term survivors held in Chicago, which the TC CFAR co-sponsored.

University of Illinois Chicago Professor Geri Donenberg, PhD, will join NIH this October to lead the advancement and coordination of HIV/AIDS research.

The Developmental Core leadership congratulates the investigators recently selected for the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR) Summer 2024 Pilot Awards, which span basic, clinical, and implementation science.

His research specific to HIV and heart disease is supported by two R01 grants with initial funding from the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research.

Northwestern University's Division of Infectious Diseases Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens Program has issued new funding announcements for research and infrastructure proposals and dissemination proposals. The deadline for submissions is August 16 at 5pm CT.

A recent publication led by corresponding author Neda Laiteerapong exploring the implementation of population-level portal-based depression and anxiety screening for people with HIV was chosen as the second TC CFAR Directors’ Choice for 2024.

Mustanski, professor of medical social sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine, will focus on social and behavioral sciences.

Public Health Boot Camp is an intensive one-week educational program provided by the AIDS Foundation Chicago and the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The first TC CFAR Directors' Choice publication selected for 2024, “Analysis of the Contribution of 6-mer Seed Toxicity to HIV-1-Induced Cytopathicity,” was recently published in the Journal of Virology.

Jessica Ridgway, MD, MS, at the University of Chicago, is now the director of the CS Core, and Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, at Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospital, is the co-director for pediatrics and metabolism of the CS Core.

Four children who acquired HIV in utero have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year, according to new findings that were presented during the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver. The study is part of ongoing, multinational research led in part by Drs. Ellen Chadwick and Jennifer Jao.

Third Coast CFAR Developmental Core Co-Director, Elena Martinelli, PhD, and her research team have discovered how blocking an immune cell singling pathway in a model of HIV-1 infection may boost immune responses and decrease viral persistence in combination with antiretroviral therapy.

Jessica Ridgway, MD, MS, was recently awarded a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to utilize clinical phenotyping and better predict which patients living with HIV are most likely to discontinue HIV care.

A partner of the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR), the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE) at the University of Chicago has released its 2023 Annual Report showcasing CCHE's  innovative research and services.

The best and most consequential original HIV research defined the science at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR) is soliciting feedback on its core services and resources that will support current and future NIH-funded HIV research.

New research shows GEMINI platform may remove barriers to promising cell and gene therapies for HIV.

The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Disease at Northwestern University (C-THAN) seeks collaborative research projects to develop novel point-of-care technologies aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The application deadline is March 31, 2024 at 11:59PM ET.

The Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (ISCI) at Northwestern University is seeking applicants for its POISE Training Program.

Submit your feedback by March 28, 2024, for the NIH OAR FY 2026‒2030 Strategic Plan for HIV and HIV-Related Research.

In January 2024, the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR) sponsored faculty members, community partners, and other stakeholders’ participation in “Write to Change the World” op-ed writing workshops.

The deadline to apply for the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute pilot awards is April 19, 2024, by 5PM CT.

Northwestern University Professor and TC CFAR Director Brian Mustanski, PhD, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Monica Bertagnolli.

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research is excited to solicit nominations for topics for a new Scientific Working Group (SWG).

The deadline to submit applications is Feb. 8, 2024.

Northwestern University Assistant Professor Judd Hultquist, PhD, was recently awarded an R21 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study new molecular probes for understanding HIV latency and for developing next-generation curative strategies.

Kathryn Macapagal, PhD; Elena Martinelli, PhD; Michael Newcomb, PhD; and Russell Brewer, DrPH; are new leaders of the Third Coast CFAR's Developmental and BSIS Cores, respectively.

Congratulations to the awardees of five projects the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected for Fiscal Year 2023 supplements to the Third Coast CFAR!

Third Coast CFAR invites members to apply for the role of Clinical Sciences Core Director or Co-Director by November 13.

Become a fellow of the NIDA-funded HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute at Fordham University.

Apply now for the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute's career development award.

Johns Hopkins University Center for AIDS Research announces applications are now open for its AFRICURE Developmental Award, which is part of the CFAR Africure program.

Third Coast Center for AIDS Research member Mary Clare Masters, MD, received a K23 award from the National Institute on Aging to implement and evaluate HIV clinic-based screening for impaired cognition and physical function in older people with HIV.

With the recent emergence of infectious disease outbreaks like Mpox (formerly monkeypox), Christina Hayford's role has taken on greater importance for the HIV research community in the Chicago area.

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research 2023 Symposium Planning Committee invites abstracts on research that address the NIH Office of AIDS Research priorities.

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research congratulates Elena Martinelli, PhD, for receiving an R01 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

A new book authored by Jenny Trinitapoli, PhD, reveals the consequences of HIV uncertainty status among young women in Balaka, Malawi.

The Third Coast CFAR's Developmental Core is exploring opportunities to expand and evolve its leadership with applications for 1-2 new positions.  

The deadline to apply for Third Coast CFAR BSIS Core leadership and investigator positions is August 1, 2023.

The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center’s Blake Max, PharmD, AAHIVP, has worked closely with the study’s research team to aid in recruitment.

Dr. Schrock is a research assistant professor at Northwestern University

In a Third Coast CFAR online seminar on April 3, 2023, Sarah Wood, MD, MSHP, presented on the precision development and implementation of multi-level HIV prevention interventions for youth.

Masters is an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a novel compound which could inform future HIV cure strategies.

On March 20, 2023, the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research hosted an online seminar featuring Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, PhD, and Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH.

The Third Coast Center CFAR has selected four Developmental Core awards and projects to receive additional funds because their research was adversely impacted by COVID-19. This one-time competition is part of the CFAR’s commitment to [...]

Dr. Moskowitz is a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

On February 13, 2023, HARC Center Principal Investigators John Gross, PhD, UC San Francisco, and Judd Hultquist, PhD, Northwestern University, presented new HIV research breakthroughs.

On January 23, 2023, the Third Coast CFAR hosted an online workshop showcasing new services offered by the Center's Biostatistics and Computational Resources Team.

Northwestern’s Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center is now accepting proposals for pilot project awards to support aging-related research.

Sign up for the fifth-annual Northwestern University Implementation Science Reading Course.

The Third Coast CFAR celebrated many successes in 2022 and would like to thank our members for an incredible year.

Former CFAR Director, Richard D’Aquila, MD, will now be the center's co-director.

Mustanski and 11 other faculty with appointments at Feinberg made the list this year.

The NIH has selected four new projects for FY22 supplements to the Third Coast CFAR. These high-impact projects address Office of AIDS Research Priorities for HIV Research and the goals of the federal Ending the [...]

Key to possible HIV cure may lie in mechanisms behind how it replicates. A team led by Judd Hultquist, PhD is using new advances in CRISPR gene-editing technology to uncover new biology that could lead [...]

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