Pilot Award Recipient: Nickie Niforatos Andescavage, MD
Pregnancies complicated by HIV have significantly higher risk of fetal complications,
Pilot Awards Recipients
The DC CFAR has funded a wide variety of research, including basic, clinical, epidemiologic, social behavioral and prevention HIV/AIDS science.
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Pilot Award Recipient: Nicole Angotti, PhD
As anti-retroviral treatment (ART) continues to help people living with HIV (PLWH) live longer, more and more PLWH will be growing older in the years ahead.
Pilot Award Recipient: Namita Kumari, PhD
The current antiretroviral drugs can manage HIV/AIDS but they do not eradicate the virus, making life long use of ART mandatory.
Pilot Award Recipient: Rachel Robinson, PhD
Stigma, poverty, and biology put men who have sex with men (MSM) at great risk for HIV globally.
Pilot Award Recipient: Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD
Latinxs are at disproportionate risk for HIV infection and, within this group, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are showing an alarming increase in HIV incidence.
Pilot Award Recipient: Xionghao Lin, PhD
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) remains a severe burden worldwide.
Pilot Award Recipient: Tamara Taggart, PhD
There is a daily pill called PrEP that can be taken by HIV negative people to prevent them from becoming HIV positive.
Pilot Award Recipient: Kate Michel, PhD
An HIV cure would improve health for people living with HIV.
Pilot Award Recipient: Matt Levy, PhD
Women living with HIV (WLWH) have around a three-times greater risk of cardiovascular disease compared with HIV-negative women.
Pilot Award Recipient: Adeline Koay, MBBS, MSc
The advancement and scale up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) among pregnant and breastfeeding women globally has led to the increase in child survival and decrease in mother-to-child HIV...