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The San Diego CFAR Developmental Core has funded 214 grants between 1994-2022. Collectively, these grants have resulted in more than 1,000 publications and more than $293 million in peer-reviewed funding.
The following list of previously funded Developmental grants will give you an idea of the range of our investigators' research.
| August 2022 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Briney, Bryan, PhD | Tracing the development of HIV bnAb lineages in SHIV-infected rhesus macaques |
| Campbell, Chadwick, PhD, MPH | Investigating the impact of syndemic factors and COVID-19 on the lived experiences of young Black sexual minority men with HIV in the U.S. South |
| Dan, Jennifer, MD, PhD | Evaluation of monkeypox immunity in persons living with HIV |
| Murin, Daniel, PhD | Screening the ReFRAME library for augmentation of NK cell ADCC activity toward HIV |
| July 2022 | |
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| Investigators | Project title |
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Bazzi, Angela, PhD Han, Benjamin, MD |
SD CFAR and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science (HWSPH) Collaborative Developmental Grant: Delivering HIV prevention and harm reduction interventions for middle-aged and older adults within opioid treatment programs in San Diego County |
| December 2021 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Skaathun, Britt, PhD | Sexually transmitted infections among people who inject drugs living with and at-risk for HIV |
| Wynn, Adriane, PhD | Dual HIV/syphilis point-of-care testing to improve identification and treatment of syphilis among pregnant women in Gaborone, Botswana |
| June 2021 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Bazzi, Angela, PhD | Preferences for PrEP interventions for people who inject drugs in San Diego County |
| Han, Benjamin, MD | Methamphetamine use among older adults living with HIV |
| December 2020 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Mravic, Marco, PhD | Biophysical contribution of the transmembrane domain trimer to the HIV-1 Env protein |
| Vollbrecht, Thomas, PhD | Inhibition of HIV Nef by AAK1 and GAK inhibitors |
| December 2019 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| LaMere, Sarah, DVM, PhD | HIV cytosine methylation dynamics |
| June 2019 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Bale, Shridar, PhD | Targeting multiple sites of HIV Env trimer vulnerability by fusion peptide-trimer prime:boosting |
| Mishra, Jyoti, PhD | Mapping the brain mechanisms of cognitive control in HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder |
| December 2018 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Bristow, Claire, PhD, MPH, MSc | The performance and economic outcomes of pooled three anatomic site Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing for HIV PrEP management |
| Lewinski, Mary, MD, PhD | Methods to test interferon resistance of superinfecting HIV-1 |
| Mirarab, Siavash, PhD | New algorithms for prioritizing prevention intervention addressed to people living with HIV |
| Stoneham, Charlotte, PhD | Mapping HIV-induced changes to the host cellular spatio-proteome |
| June 2018 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Heinz, Sven, PhD | Developing a genomic tool kit to study clinical responses to HIV infection and treatment |
| Beliakova-Bethell, Nadejda, PhD | Cell state-dependent biomarkers of HIV latency |
| Deshmukh, Lalit, PhD | Production and biophysical analysis of an in vitro model of HIV-1 maturation |
| December 2017 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Pache, Lars, PhD | Modulation of key cellular signaling pathways by HIV-1 Vpu |
| Rivera-Nieves, Jesus, MD | Validation of mass cytometry for the study of intestinal HIV infection |
| Yoh, Sunnie, PhD | Development of HIV vaccine adjuvant through modulation of cGas signaling |
| June 2017 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Chaillon, Antoine, PhD | The prostate as a reservoir for residual replication |
| Garimella, Pranav Sandilya. MD | Novel markers of tubular secretion and kidney function decline in women with HIV |
| Grelotti, David, MD | Self-report of sexual activity by young MSM using interactive text messaging |
| Hoenigl, Martin, MD | Standardized oral Beta-D glucan challenge for measuring microbial translocation in HIV infection |
| Stoneham, Charlotte, PhD | Combined EM-proteomics approach for the study of HIV-host interactions |
| December 2016 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Mackey, Timothy, PhD | Exploring the 2015 Indiana HIV outbreak using Twitter and machine learning (Resubmission) |
| Murrell, Benjamin, PhD | Rapid HIV Env epitope discovery with high throughput mutational analysis |
| June 2016 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Blumenthal, Jill, MD | Biological factors affecting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) levels in cervicovaginal fluid |
| Hall, Drew, PhD | Immunosignaturing for HIV surveillance |
| Hoenigl, Martin, MD | Consequences of risky decision making in the era of PrEP |
| December 2015 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Gaines, Tommi, PhD | Examining geographic disparities in HIV testing and medical care among American Indians and Alaska Natives in San Diego County |
| Gonzalez, David, PhD | Spatiotemporal mapping of HIV pathogenesis and host subcellular protein dynamics |
| Martin, Natasha, DPhil | Characterizing the HCV epidemic among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in San Diego County |
| Pines, Heather, PhD | PrEP preparedness study among female sex workers in the Mexico-US border region |
| June 2015 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Servin, Argentina, MD | Estimating labor exploitation and HIV/STI risk and infection among female migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala Border |
| Singh, Rajendra, PhD | Developing an ELISA-based screening assay for the HIV-1 NEF/MHC-I/AP1 complex |
| Sundararajan, Radhika, MD, PhD |
Characterizing the knowledge, attitudes, and current practices of Mozambican traditional healers for patients in an HIV-endemic region |
| December 2014 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Henry, Brook, PhD | iSTEP: A text message intervention to increase physical activity and reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in HIV+ individuals |
| Scheffler, Konrad, PhD | Computational identification of HIV antibody epitopes using the Env structure and sequence context |
| Strain, Matthew, MD, PhD |
Same-day nucleic acid test (SD-NAT) to diagnose acute HIV infection |
| Wagner, Gabriel, MD | Full-length deep sequencing of HIV-1 pol to investigate the evolution of HIV drug resistance |
| Weibel, Nadir, PhD | PIRC-NET: Analyzing social media to characterize HIV at-risk populations among MSM in San Diego |
| Zhu, Jiang- TSRI, PhD | Rational design of particle immunogens to target the N332 site of HIV-1 vulnerability |
| June 2014 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Aronoff-Spencer, Eli, MD, PhD |
Rapid point-of-care (POC) testing for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C infection using a low cost, smartphone-based potentiostat. |
| Gianella, Sara, MD |
Therapeutic HIV vaccine to target the HIV reservoir in anatomic compartments during suppressive antiretroviral therapy |
| Lewinski, Mary, PhD | System for studying HIV-1 accessory gene effects on the ubiquitinome |
| Pitpitan, Eileen, PhD | Syndemic conditions and linkage to HIV care among men who have sex with men in Tijuana, Mexico |
| December 2013 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Desplats, Paula, PhD | BCL11B role on HIV-1 latency and inflammation in the brain: a new microglial model |
| Ulibarri, Monica, PhD | Couples-based HIV prevention for FSWs and their non-commercial partners in Mexico |
| Wertheim, Joel, PhD | Genetic relatedness of HIV in epidemiologically linked partners in New York City |
| June 2013 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Eli Aronoff, Spencer, MD, PhD | Whole-cell electrochemical diagnostics for point of care HIV detection in resource-limited settings |
| Nadejda Beliakova-Bethell, PhD | Novel host factors and pathways that can be modulated to overcome HIV latency |
| Sara Gianella, MD | HIV viral reservoir in anatomic compartments |
| Sanjay Mehta, MD | Determining the association between mitochondrial DNA and accelerated immune aging in HIV infection |
| Elizabeth Reed, ScD | Economic debt, drug use, and HIV risk among sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico |
| December 2011 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD | Histone variant in anal cancer |
| Karla Wagner, PhD | Personal networks of FSW-IDUs and their male partners: Broadening the context of HIV prevention |
| Andrew Ward, PhD | Using electron microscopy to investigate the interactions between broad neutralizing antibodies and HIV spike proteins |
| June 2011 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Eliah Aronoff-Spencer,MD, PhD | Yeast-based diagnostics for HIV virus detection and tropism determination in resource-limited settings |
| Yuxing Li, PhD | Novel broadly neutralizing antibodies targeting the HIV Env MPER region |
| Pietro Sanna, MD | Characterization of novel HIV-1 Tg mice of neuroAIDS |
| December 2010 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Maile Young Karris, MD | Evaluation of T-cell dynamics in HIV-1 latency and acute HIV-1 infection |
| Jay Silverman, PhD | HIV and trafficking for sexual exploitation in the U.S.-Mexico border region |
| Elina Zuniga, PhD | Defining molecular mechanisms of plasmacytoid dendritic cell dysfunction during chronic HIV infection |
| June 2010 | |
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| Investigator | Project title |
| Seth Cohen, PhD | Examining and optimizing metal-ligand interactions in HIV integrase inhibitors |
| Victoria Roberts PhD | Defining the DNA footprint on HIV integrase by computational docking |
| Jerry Yang, PhD | SEVI-mediated enhancement of transmission of HIV as a novel microbicide |
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