The Latest News in HIV/AIDS Research

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 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.