Funding Available 2007

LETTER OF INTENT: January 26, 2007
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 5, 2007
INITIAL FUNDING: June 1, 2007

Guidelines for Developmental Research Funding

A major component of the CFAR is to support new ideas for AIDS-related research with the goal of developing future applications for outside funding. This new HIV-related funding is available to investigators in the clinical, basic, and social sciences (including pediatrics, internal medicine, neurology, and obstetrics-gynecology) who wish to explore new ideas in HIV research. Emphasis will be placed on support for interdisciplinary projects and infrastructure investments that will have a broad impact on AIDS research capabilities.

Award Recipients

The Developmental Core of the Colorado Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is pleased to announce the 2006-2007 award recipients. This year the Colorado CFAR awarded $220,000 in funds for the following projects in HIV research.

Paul Cook, PhD
Assistant Professor, SON-UCD
"Testing the Feasibility of a PDA Diary to Study Predictors of HIV Prevention Behavior"
Adela Cota-Gomez, PhD
Instructor, SOM-UCD
"Mechanisms of Macrophage/Monocytes Activation by the HIV-1 Tat Protein"
Christopher DeSouza, PhD
Associate Professor
CU Boulder
"HIV-1 and Endothelial Progenitor Cells"
Edward Gardner, MD
Assistant Professor, Denver Health
"Development and Validation of a Survey to Evaluate the Patient's Perspective of Adverse Events Following Initiation of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy"
Robert Knight, PhD
Assistant Professor, CU Boulder
"Are HIV setpoint loads controlled by the HIV genome?"
Amie Meditz, MD
Instructor, SOM-UCD
"Relationship between female sex hormones and CCR5 density on peripheral blood and cervical CD4+ lymphocytes in HIV-1 seropositive and seronegative women"

For a list of the past award recipients please click here