The DC CFAR mission is to intensify our multi-institutional effort to promote and support research that contributes to ending the HIV epidemic in Washington, DC and beyond in partnership with government and community.
Dr. Benjamin Liu has received a MPX-HIV rapid response pilot award to study "TRIMing MPXV & HIV Infection by Peptides Derived from an Innate Immune Modulator".
Dr. Marjorie Gondré-Lewis and colleagues recently published an article entitled "The Opioid Epidemic: a Crisis Disproportionately Impacting Black Americans and Urban Communities".
A social and health psychologist, Dr. Jonathon Rendina is the Senior Director of Research at the Whitman-Walker (WW) Institute and represents WW on the DC Center for AIDS Research Executive Committee.