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Developmental Center for AIDS Research
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 672
Rochester, NY 14624
Phone: (585) 273-2939
Fax: (585) 473-9573
| Director | Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D. |
| Co-Director | Michael Keefer, M.D. |
| Program Administrator | Jennifer Lynch |
The DCFAR offers an email listserv available to anyone interested in the activities of our center. To sign up, please email Jennifer Lynch.
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Starve a Virus, Feed a Cure?
Feb 2012 - A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to research published online in Nature Immunology. The finding comes from an international team of researchers including scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, several institutions in France – and a graduate student who is a political refugee from Africa and is now at work in a Rochester laboratory, intent on helping his people who have been devastated by the HIV epidemic.
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Scientists Explore Whether What Heals the Head Can Also Heal the Heart
A diverse group of scientists – experts in cardiology, neurology, immunology, microbiology and chemistry – are teaming up to study drugs that show promise in the treatment of dementia for the treatment of an equally debilitating disease – heart failure. In this case, the connection between the head and the heart lies in a particular enzyme that they believe plays a role in the development of both conditions.
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