August 2016 – Present
| Year | Name | Department | Title | Awards | Publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | ||
| 2022 Microgrant | Heather Henderson, PhD | UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases | Antibacterial resistance in people living with HIV | ||
| Winter 2021/2022 | Bonnie Shook-Sa, PhD | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health | Bridged comparisons of HIV therapeutics | ||
| Winter 2021/2022 | 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 Microgrant | Guochun Jiang, PhD | HIV Cure Center | AAV delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editor to eradicate HIV provirus in the human brain | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | 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 |