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 20 Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) located at academic medical centers throughout the U.S.

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The Fall 2011 CFAR Developmental Grant Recipents

Molecular Epidemiology of HIV Transmission Networks between Rhode Island and Massachusetts
Philip Chan, MD, Brown University

Reconstructing HIV-1 Quasispecies Sequences and Mutational Linkage Analysis using Next Generation Sequencing Data
Austin Huang, PhD, Brown University

Internet STI/HIV Prevention Intervention for African American Adolescents
Laura Whiteley, MD, Brown University

Other past awardees and approved projects

International Developmental Research Awards Recipents

January 2011

Sexual Health and HIV Prevalence in Street Involved Youth in Western Kenya Dr. Amon Chirchir, from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital

HIV-1 Treatment Failure and Frug Resistance in Ghanaian Patients During the First Three Years of Antiretroviral Therapy
Dr. Kwamena William C. Sagoe from the University of Ghana Medical School

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

CFAR In The News

• The most common myths about HIV & AIDS presented by Karen Tashima, MD, Associate Professor, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, in recognition of World AIDS Day 2011
  
• Brown-led team to launch HIV Education Project in Ghana (Brown News posted September 16, 2011)
  
• NBC 10 talks with Dr. Michelle Lally about the HPV vaccine, after Republican Michele Bachmann linked it to mental retardation. (NBC Turnto10.com posted September 14, 2011)