The UW/FHCRC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Developmental Core is delighted to announce this year’s New Investigator Awards.
The purpose of the CFAR New Investigator award program is to encourage junior investigators (at a senior stage of training or recently independent) to conduct independent research, acquire preliminary date to use for exogenous grant submissions, receive mentorship, and write one or more grants to obtain funding to continue their HIV/AIDS research careers. Awards are for 1 or 2 years, and can be up to $45,000/year (direct costs) for non-interdisciplinary applications or up toe $55,000/year for interdisciplinary projects.
The proposals were recently reviewed by the CFAR Executive Committee, along with both internal and outside reviewers. Competition for this year's awards was extremely tough as we received the largest number of applications in the history of the program.
We are excited to announce that we have chosen the following awardees and look forward to seeing the results of their projects:
Marta Bull, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Immune responses to HSV-2 recurrence replenish HIV tissue reservoirs during ART
Brandon Guthrie, PhD, Acting Instructor, Global Health, University of Washington
Improving Linkage to HIV Care Following Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling
Erick Matsen, PhD, Assistant Member, Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Machine learning to expand our knowledge of APOBEC3 specificity and improve classification of HIV mutations
Jennifer Slyker, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Global Health, University of Washington
Immunologic correlates of EBV containment in HIV infected infants
Rachel Winer, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington
Methylation Markers for Anal Cancer Screening in HIV-Positive Men
Patrick Younan, PhD, Research Associate, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Detection, Isolation, and Expansion of SHIV-Specific CD4+ T-cells
For more information on the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), visit the CFAR website.