CFAR Core Services Evaluation

The Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is a joint research effort between Tufts and Brown Universities and their affiliated hospitals and centers. The CFAR is part of a national program begun by the National Institutes of Health in 1988. There are currently 19 Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) located at academic medical centers throughout the U.S.

ACKNOWLEDGING CFAR: Don't forget to acknowledge the CFAR in your abstracts, publications, grant proposals and presentations. Click here for selection of citations.

Applications for the Spring 2008 program are due by April 1, 2008.

Past awardees and approved projects

CFAR Minority Travel Scholarships are available to minority faculty members or trainees in the area of HIV/AIDS research. Click here for more information.

Research-In-Progress Seminar Series

4/25/08 - "Antiretroviral Drug Levels " presented by James Hellinger, MD, Assistant Professor at Tufts University

5/9/08 - "Economics of HIV Infection" presented by John Wong, MD, Professor at Tufts University

5/23/08 - "Genital Tract Inflammation and HIV Shedding" presented by Brenna Anderson, MD, Assistant Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Other CFAR Sponsored Events

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Retrovirology Services Core

The Retrovirology Services Core provides services to support studies of HIV persistence during highly active antiretroviral therapy, studies of the effect of small interfering (si) RNA molecules on viral replication, studies of HIV infection by T lymphocytes, and studies of HIV infection on neural tissues.

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Dr. Bharat Ramratnam is Co-Director of the Retrovirology Services Core. He is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Ramratnam completed his undergraduate and medical education at Brown University and was resident and chief resident of Medicine at Brown Medical School. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in Virology at the Rockefeller University, New York, NY, he returned to Brown to establish an independent laboratory specializing in virology and gene therapy. His honors include the Daland Fellowship from the American Philosophical Association, a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Foundation, and a career-training award from the National Institutes of Health. His current NIH supported research program focuses on RNA interference and its use as a therapeutic and preventative for chronic viral infections.