Pilot Award Recipient: Juh Hyun Shin
Dr. Shins is a Fall 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate Developing HIV/AIDS Nursing Care Plans for People with HIV in Nursing Homes: A mixed methods approach
Pilot Awards Recipients
The DC CFAR funds a wide array of HIV investigators in basic, clinical, and socio-behavioral science. The most recent awardees are listed below
View the archive to learn more about awards given in 2017 or earlier.
Pilot Award Recipient: Benjamin Liu
Dr. Liu is a Fall 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate MPXV-induced systemic chronic inflammation in adolescents living with HIV after MPXV clearance
Pilot Award Recipient: Pedro Gazzinelli Guimaraes
Dr. Gazzinelli Guimaraes is a Fall 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate Immune Interplay of Type 2 Allergic Inflammation and HIV in Pulmonary Co-morbidity
Pilot Award Recipient: Taisuke Izumi, PhD
Dr. Izumi is a Spring 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate the Role of DAC, PARP, and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Latency Reversal and Immune Activation for a Comprehensive Functional HIV...
Pilot Award Recipient: Haijun Gao, PhD
Dr. Haijun Gao is a Spring 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate the effects of cabotegravir exposure on placental mitochondrial functions
Pilot Award Recipient: Preethi Chandran, PhD
Dr. Chandran is a Spring 2024 Pilot Awardee and will investigate the effect of environmental factors on interactions between HIV and vaginal mucosal barriers.
Pilot Award Recipient: Bethel Woldu, MD, MPH
Dr. Woldu is a Fall 2023 DC CFAR Pilot Awardee and will investigate cardiac dysfunction in people living with HIV.
Pilot Award Recipient: Ellen Yeung, PhD
Dr. Yeung is a Fall 2023 DC CFAR Pilot Awardee and will investigate the impacts of alcohol misuse, chronic pain and cognitive function in people living with HIV
Pilot Award Recipient: Randi Williams, PhD, MPH
Dr. Williams is a Fall 2023 DC CFAR Pilot Awardee and will investigate lung cancer control strategies for people living with HIV
Pilot Award Recipient: Xiping Zhan, PhD
Studies suggest that HAND results from HIV replication in the brain which induces neurodegeneration, particularly in subcortical structures such as striatum, which is extremely vulnerable.