Category: News

UNC CFAR investigator Scott Rhodes, PhD, MPH, from the Wake Forest School of Medicine has edited a new book: Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement. Leaders in the field who are working at various points along the community-engagement continuum, with diverse populations, and different types of HIV prevention...

The Virology and Immunology Cores of the CFAR merged as of November 1, 2013, and have now added Microbiology services to the Core. The new name is Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology (VIM) Core. Dr. Marcia Hobbs brings her microbiology expertise and several new services to the core, including testing for...

  The widely-celebrated “campus-wide HIV/AIDS Course” at UNC offers undergraduate, graduate, continuing studies, and professional student participants a multi-disciplinary perspective on HIV/AIDS — its etiology, immunology, epidemiology and impact on individuals and society. The various mediums through which the HIV/AIDS course is offered has afforded the opportunity to educate a...

CFAR Associate Director Dr. Myron Cohen (Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health; Yeargan-Bate Eminent Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology; and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and Director, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases) will deliver the 2014 Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture. The event will be...

The UNC CFAR is getting exciting news coverage! Our researchers Katie Mollan, MS, Joe Eron, MD, Kevin Robertson, MD, and ACTG investigators have been featured in WedMD, Harvard News, and MedPage Today for their new article which explores the risks of anti-HIV drug efavirenz. This drug appears to double the...

  Standing Funding Opportunities & Deadlines Fiscal Year 2018 Supplement Opportunity Deadline(s): April 2, 2018.  5:00 P.M. Quality of Life for Individuals at the End-of-Life Deadline(s): Feb. 1, June 1, and Oct. 1 annually [su_divider] Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Other Infections Deadline(s): Feb. 1, June 1, and Oct....

On October 4, 2013, researchers and practitioners from local academic and research institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and community agencies convened at the Inaugural Symposium on Using New Technologies to Enhance Healthy Behaviors on UNC campus. The free symposium featured speakers from the National Institutes of Health, UNC Chapel Hill, FHI...

Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. HPTN 052 evaluated whether antiretroviral drugs can prevent...