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Duke CFAR awarded supplement through CFAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pipeline Initiative for program led by Dr. Nwora Lance Okeke

The Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has received an administrative supplement of $150,000 as part of the CFAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pipeline Initiative (CDEIPI). Duke CFAR’s submission to the program is entitled: “Evidence2Practice (E2P): Leveraging implementation science to recruit HBCU/MSI students into careers in HIV research”

New 2022 RFA for the HIV/Aging Pilot Program

For the 2022 pilot funding call, HARC will fund 2-4 pilot projects, at $40,000 each, focusing the application of geroscience to better understand aging in people living with HIV (PLWH). These are intended to be one-year pilot grants. Pilot applications are welcome from (a) faculty investigators who have not yet had an R01 or other substantial NIH funding (i.e., new investigators by NIH definitions) or (b) Geroscience faculty investigators at any rank who are new to HIV research. Post-doctoral fellows are NOT eligible unless they will be a faculty member on or before July 1 2022.

Workshop Series: Quantitative Methods for HIV Researchers

2021 -2022 Virtual Workshop Series: Quantitative Methods for HIV Researchers

The series consists of the following modules:

Part I:    Data Science Workshops (Oct-Nov 2021)
Part II:   Statistics Workshops (Jan – Feb 2022)
Part III:  Assays Workshops (Mar - Apr 2022)

Call for Applications - Clinical Research with Electronic Health Records Data (CR-EHR) Course

Duke AI Health and the Duke Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute are pleased to announce a call for applications to the Clinical Research with Electronic Health Records Data (CR-EHR) Course. CR-EHR is an interdisciplinary course designed to engage both clinical and quantitative researchers in learning how to access and work with Duke EHR data.

Gilead Research Program

Gilead’s Research Scholars Program:
Advancing Science Together in HIV

Gilead’s Research Scholars Program supports innovative research from emerging investigators around the world to advance scientific knowledge in areas of unmet medical needs and improve the lives of patients everywhere.

Surgical Sciences QAU Named Researchers of the Month

GOOD NEWS from the Section Newsletter, March 2021

Within the section of Surgical Disciplines Division of Surgical Sciences, the quality assurance unit works hand in hand with laboratory managers in the Center for Human Systems Immunology to enable reporting of antibody measurements in vaccination and immunoprophylaxis clinical trials for key decision making.

Congratulations to Michelle Rojas for her MPH defense!

Michelle Rojas, MSc-GH '21 Candidate

Mentor: Dr. Dorothy Dow, Duke Global Health Institute

Resilience in HIV-infected Youth: A Longitudinal Exploration of Protective Factors and Challenges Throughout Enrollment in a Mental Health Intervention

Author List: Michelle Rojas, Dorothy Dow, Kalei Hosaka (and other people…)