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NIH awards $6.25 million for AIDS research center in Chicago
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The NIH awarded a 5-year, $6.25 million grant to a partnership of organizations in Chicago for the creation of an AIDS research center, according to a press release.
The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) will bring together researchers from the Center on Halsted, Northwestern University, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Public Health and the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Systems.
“Our ultimate goal is to stop the ongoing spread of HIV that is now under the public’s radar,” Richard D’Aquila, MD, professor of infectious diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in the release. “The idea behind a CFAR is to provide the glue that brings all different disciplines together.”
Specifically, the Third Coast CFAR will focus on ending the HIV epidemic in Chicago among young men who have sex with men.
“This is a problem throughout the United States,” D’Aquila said. “One of the strengths of our center is that our members are already national leaders in studying the health of this population.”
According to the release, the center provides training, consultation, data collection, research navigation, basic science resources, funding for young investigators, a scientific working group and collaboration between researchers in different areas.