UNC has received a seven-year, more than $40 million award from the National Institutes of Health for a clinical trials unit that will implement the scientific agendas of five NIH networks devoted to HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and cure research.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a seven-year, more than $40 million award from the National Institutes of Health for a clinical trials unit that will implement the scientific agendas of five NIH networks devoted to HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and cure research.
The Global HIV Prevention and Treatment Clinical Trials Unit (UNC Global CTU) is led by three co-principal investigators from the UNC School of Medicine: Joseph Eron, MD, professor of medicine; Jeffrey Stringer, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology; and Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, professor of medicine. The CTU is housed in the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases.