NEMC Clinical Research on AIDS Training Grant

Christine Wanke, M.D., Principal Investigator

In July 2003, Christine Wanke, M.D., Director of the Nutrition, Metabolism & GI Core from Tufts University received NIH funding for the New England Medical Center Hospitals Clinical Research on AIDS Training Grant (AI-07438).

This competitive renewal is an interactive program with the Brown University School of Medicine/The Miriam Hospital HIV program. The goal is to continue to train investigators in methods of HIV/AIDS clinical research with an emphasis on the unique strengths of the two programs individually. These include: nutritional and metabolic issues in HIV, special populations in HIV including women, ethnic minorities, injection drug users, incarcerated populations, outcomes research and decision analysis, international AIDS research, and clinical studies in HIV/AIDS including the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit based at Brown and those based on Tufts own basic HIV/AIDS research programs.

By teaching core methods together with mentored clinical research designed and carried out by trainees under the supervision of experienced and able mentors, it is expected that the next generation of AIDs clinical investigators will be trained to a level competitive for independent funding, so that their work and the work of the training grant will have a direct impact on and improve clinical practice and outcomes in HIV infected patients.