Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health Team Awarded Five Year NIH Grant to Investigate Crowdsourcing Approaches to Improving HIV Testing and … Read More
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China: Crowdsourcing HIV Testing
HIV/AIDS Course at UNC
Class 1: "Virus & the Immune System" Joe Eron, MD | January 7, 2015 The widely-celebrated “campus-wide HIV/AIDS Course” at UNC … Read More
World AIDS Day Symposium
Recordings of the 2014 World AIDS Day Symposium are now available online! MORNING SESSION: Antiretrovirals for Treatment and Prevention: State of the … Read More
Featured Cores
UNC CFAR has seven Cores each of which offer unique services to support the entire spectrum of HIV/AIDS research. For the complete list of UNC CFAR Cores, follow the "View All" below.
Virology, Immunology & Microbiology Core
The VIM Core has added new services since its merger in November 2013, including testing for N. gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Trichomonas. The new VIM Core will continue to provide users with state-of-the-art HIV, and now STD, testing in CAP/CLIA laboratories, laboratory support, and facilitating AIDS research among CFAR investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, FHI 360, and RTI International.
Biostatistics Core
Michael Hudgens, Director of the Biostatistics Core, is organizing the break out sessions on HIV Biostatistics at this year's CFAR HIV Research in International Settings (CHRIS) Meeting, taking place in October in San Diego, California. The CHRIS meeting will cover results of international HIV research supported by several NIH-funded Centers for AIDS Research, as well as suggestions on improving research operations in resource-limited settings.
Social and Behavioral Science Core
Exemplifying its commitment to stimulate and promote new HIV-related research at UNC, FHI, and RTI, the SBS Core hosted a Fall networking event for multidisciplinary researchers to discuss integrating Implementation Science in to HIV research. Bryan Weiner (UNC), Catherine Rohweder (UNC), Oscar Fleming (National Implementation Research Network, Triangle Implementation Group), and Theresa Hoke (FHI 360) shared their expertise and insight with a crowd of over forty researchers, students, and others in the field of public health.
UNC CFAR in the News
Dr. Margolis Featured in New Yorker Article on HIV Cure
The New Yorker recently featured the research of UNC School of Medicine researcher David Margolis, MD, in this article about the search for a cure to HIV infection. Margolis, a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology and immunology, serves as director of the School of Medicine’s Program in Translational Clinical Research. Dr. Margolis currently leads… Read More
UNC CFAR Investigators Featured at CROI 2015
Five abstracts from UNC CFAR have been accepted for presentation at the poster session at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2015, each of which were supported by the UNC CFAR’s Biostatistics Core. This annual collaborative science conference brings together top basic, translational, and clinical researchers from around the world to share the latest… Read More
HIV Cure Research Interview with Timothy Ray Brown & Dave Purdy, co-founders of the Cure for AIDS Coalition
The searcHIV team has published an interview with Timothy Ray Brown and his associate Dave Purdy that includes their thoughts on HIV cure research as well as their perspective on the founding of their organization, the Cure for AIDS Coalition. Read the interview here.
