Pilot Award Program

CFAR provides direct funding to stimulate new research on HIV/AIDS, including the formation of new, multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS research teams that leverage unique institutional strengths. The Developmental Core oversees this pilot award program which offers different types of peer-reviewed awards including:

New Investigator awards to early career faculty wishing to develop initial HIV-related research projects.
Multidisciplinary awards to support new interdisciplinary collaborations that span different departments and schools.
High-Impact innovation awards to support innovative studies with the potential for high impact

D-CFAR Pilot Awards 2008-July 2012

Current Funding Opportunities

Click here to review a complete list of NIAID Funding Opportunities

For information about these and other funding opportunities, please contact Jennifer Lynch.

Active Pilot Awards

	Post-Vaccination HPV Genotype Distribution Among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Young Women in Soweto, South Africa David Adler, Emergency Medicine
	Microbubble array technology for detecting HIV latently infected T cell reservoirs Lisa DeLouise, Dermatology
	Transcriptome profiling of single clone HIV Env-specific B cells utilizing microbubbles James Kobie, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
	Rochester/Cape Town Men's Social Media Network Study Vince Silenzio, Psychiatry
	Cerebral Blood Flow and Cognitive Assessment in HIV/AIDS Older Adults and Healthy Volunteers Krupa Shah, Medicine, Geriatrics
	Frailty in HIV-Infected Older Adults With and Without Cancer Supriya Mohile, Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
	G-quartets role in HIV-1 genome dimerization and recombination Dorota Piekna-Przybylska Microbiology and Immunology
	A nematode model for Tat-mediated neurodegeneration Douglas Portman, Biomedical Genetics, Center for Neural Development & Disease

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