DC CFAR Investigators Drs. Jonathon Rendina and Tamara Taggart Receive New LITE-2 Award |
The new 5-year project is entitled "Multilevel strategies to understand and modify the role of structural and environmental context on HIV inequities for sexual and gender minorities of color" will support the development of a new cohort of approximately 5,500 Black, Latino/a/x, and Multiracial sexual and gender minorities across the nation. This partnership between WW and GW will aim to understand the impact of socio-structural stigma via state and local policy and climate on HIV inequities. The project will also feature a Scientific Advisory Board, a Community Partnership Group and a Policy Working Group that will work to develop new quantitative metrics of state-level structural racism and anti-LGBTQ stigma.
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Join the 14th Annual CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network (SBSRN) Conference |
Please join the 14th Annual CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network (SBSRN) Conference hosted by the Penn CFAR on May 26-27, 2022. This year the theme will be "Confronting Intersecting Epidemics: Prioritizing HIV/AIDS Research". The SBSRN conference aims to foster cross CFAR collaborations between behavioral and social scientists.
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New Publication from DC CFAR Pilot Award Recipient Dr. Sabyasachi Sen |
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New Publication on Population Representation in HIV Cure Research |
DC CFAR HIV Cure SWG Community Co-leads Mr. Riko Boone (TAG) and Ms. Toni Young (CEG), Clinical Population Sciences Core Co-Director Dr. Manya Magnus (GW) and Ms. Carly Roberts (GW MPH student matched to the project through the DC CFAR CPS Core MatchMaker (C2M2) program) published an article in the Journal of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses in February 2022 entitled " Population Representation in HIV Cure Research: A Review of Diversity Within HIV Cure Studies Based in the United States". The authors conducted a review in which the investigators sought to characterize how often HIV cure research studies report data on diversity of participants. The review found that within the sampling frame of publications that were investigated only 51% of publications provided a demographic description.
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Join the DC CFAR Developmental Core Collaborative Seminar Series Featuring Dr. Jonathon Rendina |
Please join the DC CFAR Developmental Core for a Collaborative Seminar Series on Tuesday, March 29, from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. This seminar will feature a presentation from DC CFAR Investigator Dr. Jonathon Rendina (WW) on "An Overview of Research at Whitman-Walker Institute".
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Do you have an event you would like to see included in the next edition of the Community Spotlight? We invite any news or updates from the DC CFAR community and encourage you to send information that may be of interest to CFARinDC@gmail.com. |
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DC CFAR partner institutions and community-based organizations have developed numerous excellent COVID-19 resources. We've included a collection of these here, along with a number of other opportunities for your reference. We will continue to update these resources in the days ahead and we encourage you to send information that may be of interest to our DC CFAR community to CFARinDC@gmail.com.
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March 24-25, 2022
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March 28, 2022
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March 29, 2022
March 30, 2022
April 6-8, 2022
April 20-21, 2022
April 25, 2022
May 18, 2022
May 26-27, 2022
July 11-13, 2022
Washington DC
Abstracts due April 1, 2022
July 28-30, 2022
July 29- August 2, 2022
August 23-26, 2022
For more DC CFAR events please see the calendar here.
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FUNDING, TRAINING AND MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES
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The NIH Office of AIDS Research and with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) that have HIV/AIDS research budgets, is hosting a Workshop for Early Career Investigators in HIV/AIDS on Monday, April 25.
The GW's Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine (MITM) is searching for a full-time Laboratory Technician to work in the team of Dr. Natalia Soriano-Sarabia.Dr. Soriano-Sarabia’s main research interest is basic and translational research with a special focus on the development of immunotherapeutic approaches for HIV cure.
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to stimulate research analyzing shared risk factors and barriers to care among populations disproportionately burdened by both heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) comorbidities and HIV/AIDS.
DAIDS Program Officer Position Available
The Targeted Interventions Branch, Division of AIDS, NIAID has an opening for a Program Officer. The ideal candidate would be a well-rounded general virologist, with an interest in identifying new therapeutic/cure strategies for HIV infection. For further information contact Sandra Bridges Gurgo, PhD, Chief, Targeted Interventions Branch.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) is hiring an Associate Director for the ACT NOW: END AIDS (ANEA) Coalition. ACT NOW: END AIDS is a national coalition of community-based organizations, health departments, and national organizations committed to ending AIDS as an epidemic in the United States.
Merck's Research Laboratories’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. The fellow will focus on examining HIV persistence in tissue with imaging/omics based approaches.
WWH is Recruiting a Senior Research Scientist and Data Analyst
Whitman-Walker is recruiting a Senior Research Scientist who will be responsible for developing and overseeing a large and diverse portfolio of externally-funded research studies and a Data Analyst who will be responsible for overseeing the extraction, analysis, and dissemination of clinical data to support grant reporting, quality improvement, and health center operations.
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Network in collaboration with the NIAID Division of AIDS (DAIDS) has developed a new pathway for the conduct of small experimental trials that aim to advance efforts related to HIV remission and cure utilizing the infrastructure of the ACTG Network. Applications are due April 1st.
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NIH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-22-022
Posting Date: March 10, 2022
Closing Date: August 3, 2022
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DE-23-002
Posting Date: March 4, 2022
Closing Date: July 25, 2022
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DE-23-003
Posting Date: March 4, 2022
Closing Date: July 25, 2022
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DA-23-006
Posting Date: February 25, 2022
Closing Date: August 12, 2023
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DA-23-007
Posting Date: February 25, 2022
Closing Date: August 12, 2023
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-20-214
Posting Date: August 17, 2020
Closing Date: September 7, 2022
Click here for additional funding opportunities available from the National Institutes of Health.
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The DC CFAR is an NIH funded program (P30AI117970), which is supported by the following NIH Co-Funding and Participating Institutes and Centers: NIAID, NCI, NICHD, NIDCR, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, NIA, NIDDK, NINR, NIMHD, FIC, and OAR. The content isthe responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. |
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