August 2016 – Present
| Year | Name | Department | Title | Awards | Publications/ Publications at national/international* conferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Traditional Developmental Award | Emily Ciccone | UNC Division of Infectious Diseases | HIV-Associated Viral Acute Respiratory Tract Illness (HAVARTI): The burden and severity of vaccine-preventable respiratory infection in people living with HIV in rural Uganda | ||
| 2024 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Health Behavior | Diabetes Mellitus and Hospitalizations among People with and without HIV | ||
| 2024 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Stephanie DeLong, PhD, MPH | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology | Preventing HIV acquisition among adolescent girls: what role do adverse childhood experiences and mental health play? | ||
| 2024 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Katherine MacDonald, MD, MPH | UNC Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine | Adolescent and young adult HIV disclosure to partners and its impact on HIV prevention in Western Kenya | ||
| 2024 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Subhashini Sellers, MD MSCR | UNC Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care | Lung Cancer Screening Uptake and Barriers to Screening in PWH | ||
| 2024 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Shuntai Zhou | UNC Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology | Sequencing-based HIV-1 recency assay for non-B subtypes | ||
| 2023 Traditional Developmental Award | Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH; Suzanne Day, PhD | UNC Division of Infectious Diseases | Piloting a crowdsourcing approach for developing physician advancement DEI competency metrics to improve HIV services | ||
| 2023 Traditional Developmental Award | Matthew Painschab, MD | UNC Dept. of Medicine | Causes of lymphadenopathy in a district HIV clinic: a pilot study | DP1CA291150 | |
| 2022 Traditional Developmental Award | Sam Lai, PhD | UNC | Engineering bispecific antibodies for simultaneous non-hormonal contraception and prevention of HIV | ||
| 2022 Traditional Developmental Award | Nivedita Bhushan, PhD | RTI | Adapting and Validating a Brief Depression Screening Tool for Adolescents Living with HIV in Malawi | ||
| 2022 Microgrant | Abigail Hatcher, PhD | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Health Behavior | Travel to an international conference to present the findings of her CFAR Developmental Award | ||
| 2022 CFAR Supplement | Allysha Maragh-Bass, PhD, MPH Marie Stoner, PhD, MPH | RTI | Formative research on a sex-positive tool for PrEP Counseling with Sexual/Gender Minority Youth of Color in NC and CA | ||
| 2020, 2022 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 | PMC9273019; Woollett et al., 2022*; Wollett, van Eck, & Hatcher, 2022* | |
| 2022 Microgrant | Heather Henderson, PhD | UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases | Antibacterial resistance in people living with HIV | ||
| Winter 2021/2022 Traditional Developmental Award | Bonnie Shook-Sa, PhD | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health | Bridged comparisons of HIV therapeutics | PMC10843571 | |
| Winter 2021/2022 Traditional Developmental Award | Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH | UNC, LCCC | Prevalence, predictors, and impact of high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) persistence following thermal ablation among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) | ||
| 2021 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 | ||
| 2021 Microgrant | Guochun Jiang, PhD | HIV Cure Center | AAV delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editor to eradicate HIV provirus in the human brain | R21MH128034 R21AI167709 R01DA055491 | PMC9727433; PMC9580451; PMC7750564 |
| 2021 CFAR-NC TraCS Developmental Award | 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 CFAR Supplement | Anne-Marie Turner, PhD | UNC, Division of Infectious Diseases | Mapping Uninduced, Intact HIV Proviruses in ART-Suppressed Donors | ||
| 2021 CFAR Supplement | Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS | UNC, Division of Infectious Diseases | Conversations that Matter: Increasing provider competence and decreasing stigma toward sexual and gender minority youth | ||
| 2021 CFAR Supplement | Joan Price, MD, MSCR, MPH | UNC Global Women's Health | Evaluation of vaginal microbial and inflammatory dynamics to predict HIV-attributable preterm birth in Zambia | ||
| 2021 CFAR Supplement | Katrina McCoy, PhD, FNP-C | UNC Charlotte | Enhancing Strategies to Engage Providers in Efforts to Eliminate HIV: Project EnSTEP | ||
| 2021 CFAR Supplement | Felicia Browne, ScD, MPH | RTI | Developing Strategies to Improve Engagement in HIV Services among People who use Drugs in the Charlotte Transitional Grant Area | ||
| 2020 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 Traditional Developmental Award | Guochun Jiang, PhD | HIV Cure Center | HIV Reservoirs in the Central Nervous System | R21MH128034 | PMC9727433; PMC9580451; PMC7750564 |
| 2019 Traditional Developmental Award | 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 | PMC10042348 | |
| 2019 Traditional Developmental Award | Haitao Guo, PhD | UNC Genetics | Suppress HIV Replication and Potentiate T Cell Response to HIV by Targeting Metabolic Pathways | left UNC | PMC8087183; Guo et al., 2020* |
| 2019 Traditional Developmental Award | Stephanie Martin, PhD | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Nutrition | Engaging Fathers in the Care and Feeding of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants in Zambia | Matenga et al., 2022* | |
| 2019 Traditional Developmental Award | David van Duin, MD, PhD, FIDSA | UNC SOM | Antibacterial resistance in people living with HIV | PMC9345307; PMC9547514; PMC9402620; Ruegsegger et al., 2020* | |
| 2018 Joint UNC-Duke PrEP Award | Allysha Maragh-Bass, PhD, MPH (John Mitchell, PhD, Duke CFAR co-PI; Marie Stoner, PhD, RTI co-PI) | FHI 360, Duke University, RTI | A community based approach to understanding PrEP care in at-risk adolescents (UNC PI change) | PMC10035063; Maragh-Bass et al., 2021*, PMC9007838; Stoner et al., 2019* | |
| 2018 Traditional Developmental Award | Nathan Montgomery, MD | UNC Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Genomic Characterization of HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi | PMC6970037 | |
| 2018 Traditional Developmental Award | Weiming Tang, PhD | UNC Project - China | Using Secondary Distribution to Promote HIV Testing among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Pilot Study | R34MH119963 | PMC6105569; PMC6635017; PMC6192108; PMC5863085 |
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD | 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*; Oguntoye et al., 2020*; PMC7289066 |
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Jennifer Deese, PhD, MPH | 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 left FHI360 | PMC8427711; Deese et al., 2020* |
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Nora Franceshini, MD, MPH | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology | Pharmacogenomics of anti-retroviral drugs: a pilot study | ||
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Rainier Masa, PhD | 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 | PMC9673916; PMC10842355 | |
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD | 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 | PMC9798611; PMC7274419; Lemasters et al., 2019a*; Lemasters et al., 2019b*; Kulisewa et al., 2019a*; Kulisewa et al., 2019b* |
| 2017 Traditional Developmental Award | Kimberly Powers, PhD | 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 | R21NR018805 | |
| 2017 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Danielle Haley, PhD, MPH | 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) | K01DA046307 R01DA046197 | |
| 2017 Secondary Data Analysis Award | Andrea Knittel, MD | UNC OB/GYN | Longitudinal effects of incarceration on STI and sexual partner acquisition (Secondary Data Analysis Award) | left UNC | PMC8972014; PMC6739179, PMC8112715 |
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Edward Browne, PhD | UNC Infectious Diseases | Single cell analysis of HIV latency (Secondary Data Analysis Award) | R01 AI143381 | Bradley et al., 2018 (PMC6258175) |
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Sylvia Fitting, PhD | 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 Traditional Developmental Award | Sharon Parker, PhD | NC A&T | Perspectives of HIV Prevention Among Incarcerated Women: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis as a Potential Biomedical HIV Intervention | ||
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Julie Dumond, PhD | UNC School of Pharmacy | Quantitative Analysis of Aging Effect on CD4+ T-cell recovery in HIV-suppressed Participants Using Population Modeling Methods | ||
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Jonathan Fogle, PhD | NCSU | Lentivirus-Activated T Regulatory Cells Exploit CD8+ T Cell Epigenetic Profiles | Wang et al., 2018 (PMC5863085) | |
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Ruian Ke, PhD | 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 | left NCSU | PMC6237475; Ke, 2017a*; Ke, 2017b*; Ke, 2017c* |
| 2016 Traditional Developmental Award | Mackenzie Cottrell, PhD | UNC School of Pharmacy | Does Sex Hormone Therapy Decrease NRTI Active Metabolite Formation in Mucosal Tissues? | R21 AI145646 |