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.

The CFAR Developmental Grants Program is announcing a request for applications for the Spring 2009 cycle. Applications are due to the CFAR office by May 1, 2009.

Additional information and application instuctions.

The CFAR Developmental Grants Program awardees for the Fall 2008 cycle are:

Roland Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD: Confluence of HIV Risk Behaviors and Drug Misuse Among Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Department Patients

Philip Tsichlis, MD: Tpl2 in GPCR Signaling in HIV-AIDS

Other 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.

October 1 - 2, 2009
4th Annual Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Netork (SBSRN) National Scientific Meeting

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Research-In-Progress Seminar Series

No seminars are scheduled for June, July, and August. Presentation will resume in September 2009

Other CFAR Sponsored Events

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The Behavioral and Social Sciences Program

The Behavioral and Social Sciences Program, under the leadership of Dr. Larry Brown, Professor of Psychiatry, has brought together more than forty researchers in behavioral sciences from the Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Medicine as well as the Brown Center for Behavioral Medicine. The goal is to provide a framework for dealing with psychiatric and behavioral issues in HIV as they specifically relate to the several distinct age groups (adolescent, young adult, elderly) and specific high-risk ethnic groups (predominately Latinos and /African-Americans).

Click here for more information on the Behavioral and Social Sciences Program

Dr. Larry K. Brown is Director of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Program. He is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is Director of Research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital. He completed his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his General Psychiatry residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University. He is currently the Chair of the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences HIV/AIDS Study Section. His research focuses on HIV risk among adolescents and the development of effective prevention programs, especially for adolescents with psychiatric disorders. He is the principal investigator of several major projects funded by NIMH that are developing and testing a variety of new interventions such as a family-based intervention, an emotion regulation intervention, or the use of a media campaign.