Pilot Awards Recipients

The DC CFAR has funded a wide variety of research, including basic, clinical, epidemiologic, social behavioral and prevention HIV/AIDS science.

View the archive to learn more about awards given in 2017 or earlier.

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Pilot Award Recipient: Rupali Doshi, MD, MS

In the District of Columbia (DC), roughly 13,000 people, or 1.9% of the population, is living with HIV, one of the highest concentrations in the United States.

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Pilot Award Recipient: Sabyasachi Sen, MD, PhD

This study will examine blood derived cells called endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) as a way to study endothelium of the future.

Pilot Award Recipient: Blair Spence, MD

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects the brain soon after infection and can cause cognitive (mental) difficulties for infected persons.