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NIH awards grant for HIV/AIDS research in D.C.
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A $7.5 million grant from the NIH has been awarded toward the establishment of an interdisciplinary consortium of six District of Colombia research institutions, according to a press release.
“With this award from the National Institutes of Health, the District of Columbia and the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR) arrive as a premier destination for HIV research in the country,” District Mayor Muriel Bowser said in the press release. “This opportunity will attract and support scientists for new and exciting research breakthroughs to end the HIV epidemic.”
The new research consortium is led by Alan E. Greenberg, MD, MPH, of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at George Washington University, and will receive the grant funding over the course of 5 years. According to the press release, the goal of the center is to combat the District’s HIV epidemic and encourage collaboration between institutes, government and the community.
“After more than 3 decades of clinical and basic science research by investigators at Washington, DC institutions, the DC CFAR award will not only raise the level of HIV research in our city, but increase institutional collaboration,” Gary Simon, MD, PhD, director of the infectious disease division at George Washington’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences and co-director of the newly established research center, said in the press release. “The support of the DC CFAR will have a substantial impact on young investigators who are beginning their research careers.”
The other collaborating institutions are: Georgetown University, Howard University, American University, the Children’s National Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.