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HIV cure research Q & A with Dr. Tucker and Dr. Rennie

April 9, 2015
CFAR Investigators Dr. Joseph Tucker and Dr. Stuart Rennie are experts in the field of HIV research. As a part of their searcHIV project, a multi-site, multi-disciplinary working group focusing on investigating the biosocial implications of curing HIV infection, they have created a Q & A page to answer questions...

CFAR Director Ron Swanstrom and Team Identify Timeline for HIV Replication in the Brain

April 9, 2015
A team of researchers has discovered HIV can begin replicating in the brain as early as four months after initial infection. After following 72 treatment naïve participants during the first two years of HIV infection, researchers observed that 20 percent of subjects showed replication in the central nervous system (CNS) at...

UNC CFAR Investigators Featured at CROI 2015

March 24, 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...

Welcome Dr. Kate MacQueen, new CFAR Developmental Core Director

February 10, 2015
The UNC CFAR is delighted to welcome Dr. Kate MacQueen as the new CFAR Developmental Core Director. Kate is a Senior Scientist in the Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Division of FHI 360. She joined FHI 360 in 2001 and before that worked at the CDC. Kate has appointments as Adjunct...

Dr. Margolis Featured in New Yorker Article on HIV Cure

January 14, 2015
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...

UNC CFAR Investigators Featured at CROI 2015

December 10, 2014
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...

HIV Cure Research Interview with Timothy Ray Brown & Dave Purdy, co-founders of the Cure for AIDS Coalition

December 3, 2014
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.

Celebrating Survival: Living with HIV

December 3, 2014
On September 12, 2014, the Infectious Diseases Clinic at UNC Hospitals hosted a first-of-its-kind celebration gala to pay tribute to those who have been living with HIV infection for more than 20 years. Read more…

Crowdsourcing HIV Testing in China

September 30, 2014
Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health Team Awarded Five Year NIH Grant to Investigate Crowdsourcing Approaches to Improving HIV Testing and Linkage Guangzhou, China– Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health (SESH) is part of a consortium that received a $3.07 million USD, five-year grant (details here) from the National Institutes of Health...

UNC receives $1.5 million grant to strengthen HIV/AIDS research training in South Africa

September 24, 2014
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $1.5 million grant aimed at strengthening HIV/AIDS research training in collaboration with the Wits School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The grant was awarded by the Fogarty International Center of the...

Education in Action at the NC HIV/AIDS Advocacy Conference

September 24, 2014
The 2014 North Carolina HIV/AIDS Advocacy Conference drew over 150 people to Winston-Salem State University on September 6th to learn how to improve the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities in our state. Dr. Jacquelyn Clymore, North Carolina State HIV/STD Director in the Communicable Disease Branch of...

Dr. Joseph Tucker works globally to educate HIV researchers

September 18, 2014
The UNC CFAR has a robust membership of doctors and researchers who work internationally to increase knowledge, decrease stigma, and provide care and support in the field of HIV/AIDS. CFAR investigator Dr. Joseph Tucker, assistant professor at the UNC School of Medicine and director of UNC Project-China, is doing innovative...