Year	Name	Department	Title	Awards	Publications
2021	Genevieve Clutton, PhD (Co-funded with NC TraCS)	UNC School of Medicine, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology	Evaluating the role of the CD8/GLUT1 axis in dysfunctional anti-viral immunity in obesity
2021	Monica Diaz, MD, MS	UNC School of Medicine, Department of Neurology	Pilot Study for the assessment of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in HIV-associated cognitive impairment
2021	Friday Saidi, MBBS, MMED	UNC Institute for Global Health and Infections Diseases	The Impact of Antiretrovirals for HIV Prevention and Treatment on the Vaginal Microbiotica of Pregnant women in Malawi and Zambia
2020	Abigail Hatcher, PhD	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Health Behavior	Towards a therapeutic intervention for pregnant adolescents living with HIV and partner violence
2020	Lauren Hill, PhD	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Health Behavior	Developing an Online PrEP Shared Decision-Making Aid for US Women
2020	Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD	UNC Division of Infectious Diseases	Genomics of Genital Ulcer Disease of Unknown Etiology Among Persons with HIV or at High Risk for HIV-infection in Malawi
2020	Guochun Jiang, PhD	HIV Cure Center	HIV Reservoirs in the Central Nervous System
2019	Ross Boyce, MD, MSc	UNC ID	More than a machine: Exploring the ancillary systems and processes required to make point-of-care HIV-1 viral load testing effective in rural western Uganda
2019	Haitao Guo, PhD	UNC Genetics	Suppress HIV Replication and Potentiate T Cell Response to HIV by Targeting Metabolic Pathways
2019	Stephanie Martin, PhD, Med	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Nutrition	Engaging Fathers in the Care and Feeding of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants in Zambia
2019	David van Duin, MD, PhD, FIDSA	UNC SOM	Antibacterial resistance in people living with HIV
2019	Allysha Maragh-Bass, PhD, MPH (and John Mitchell, Ph.D., Duke CFAR co-PI)	FHI 360	A community based approach to understanding PrEP care in at-risk adolescents (UNC PI change)
2018	Carolina Garrido, Ph.D.	UNC Dept. of Medicine and HIV Cure Center	Development of a mouse model to test natural killer (NK) cell-based immune strategies to clear latent HIV infection
2018	Nathan Montgomery, M.D.	UNC Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	Genomic Characterization of HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi		Montgomery et al., 2020 (PMC6970037)
2018	Marie Stoner, Ph.D. (and John Mitchell, Ph.D., Duke CFAR co-PI)	UNC Carolina Population Center	A community based approach to understanding PrEP care in at-risk adolescents
2018	Weiming Tang, Ph.D.	UNC Project - China	Using Secondary Distribution to Promote HIV Testing among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Pilot Study	R34 MH119963	Tang et al., 2019a (PMC6105569); Tang et al., 2019b (PMC6635017); Wang et al., 2018a (PMC6192108); Wang et al., 2018b (PMC5863085)
2017	Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Ph.D.	UNC Dept. of Social Medicine	Exploring the use of PrEP among people who inject drugs in Guilford County, North Carolina	R01MD013573	Hershow et al., 2019
2017	Jennifer Deese, Ph.D., M.P.H.	FHI 360	What’s sex got to do with it? Understanding the potential for confounding and exposure misclassification due to vaginal sex and semen exposure in studies of biological mechanisms associated with HIV acquisition	R01HD096937
2017	Nora Franceshini, M.D., M.P.H.	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology	Pharmacogenomics of anti-retroviral drugs: a pilot study
2017	Rainier Masa, Ph.D.	UNC School of Social Work	A Feasibility Study of Umwini, an Asset-Based Intervention to Improve Treatment Outcomes of Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV) in Eastern Province, Zambia
2017	Samantha Meltzer-Brody, M.D.	UNC School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry	Perinatal depression and engagement in HIV care among women in Malawi: Formative research to support the development of a culturally appropriate mental health treatment intervention	R34MH116806
2017	Kimberly Powers, Ph.D.	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology	Formative Research to Develop a Prospective, Population Based Cohort of Newly HIV-Diagnosed Persons in North Carolina	R21 NR018805
2017	Danielle Haley, Ph.D., M.P.H.	UNC School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases	Quantifying the impact of medical marijuana laws women’s behavioral and clinical health: a longitudinal multilevel analysis of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)	K01 DA046307, R01 DA046197
2017	Andrea Knittel, M.D.	UNC OB/GYN	Longitudinal effects of incarceration on STI and sexual partner acquisition (Secondary Data Analysis Award)
2016	Edward Browne, Ph.D.	UNC Infectious Diseases	Single cell analysis of HIV latency (Secondary Data Analysis Award)	R01 AI143381	Bradley et al., 2018 (PMC6258175)
2016	Sylvia Fitting, Ph.D.	UNC Behavioral Neuroscience	Neuroprotective potential of endocannabinoids in a model of neuroAIDS	R01 DA045596	Xu et al., 2017 (PMC5587778); Xu et al., 2016 (PMC4848126)
2016	Sharon Parker, Ph.D.	NC A&T	Perspectives of HIV Prevention Among Incarcerated Women: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis as a Potential Biomedical HIV Intervention
2016	Julie Dumond, Ph.D.	UNC School of Pharmacy	Quantitative Analysis of Aging Effect on CD4+ T-cell recovery in HIV-suppressed Participants Using Population Modeling Methods
2016	Jonathan Fogle, Ph.D.	NCSU	Lentivirus-Activated T Regulatory Cells Exploit CD8+ T Cell Epigenetic Profiles		Wang et al., 2018 (PMC5863085)
2016	Ruian Ke, Ph.D.	NCSU	A quantitative framework to evaluate the efficacy and predict impacts of treatment strategies involving Dual-Affinity Re-Targeting (DART) proteins in HIV eradication studies		Ke et al., 2018 (PMC6237475)
2016	Mackenzie Cottrell, Ph.D.	UNC School of Pharmacy	Does Sex Hormone Therapy Decrease NRTI Active Metabolite Formation in Mucosal Tissues?	R21 AI145646