Pilot Award Recipient: Xionghao Lin, PhD
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) remains a severe burden worldwide.
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: 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...
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.
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.