Welcome to the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
The Penn Center for AIDS Research (Penn CFAR) is one of 21 NIH-funded CFARs and includes HIV and AIDS investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Wistar Institute.
The Penn CFAR's mission is to support, encourage and facilitate research in all areas of HIV/AIDS on the Penn/CHOP/Wistar campus by (a) facilitating communication and interdisciplinary collaborations through workshops, working groups, strategic planning efforts, and a seminar series covering all topics in the field; (b) support innovative pilot reaseach in HIV/AIDS through developmental pilot grant programs including nonhuman primate-based research; (c) mentoring and support of junior investigators; (d) services and training in support of HIV research through Shared Cores: Clinical, Viral/Molecular, Immunology, Biostatistics & Data Management; Behavioral and Social Sciences; International; Nonhuman Primate.
In the News
- Rick Bushman published in PNAS on how viruses in gut bacteria change over time. Read more...
- Baligh Yehia awarded ICAAC Young Investigator Award by the American Society for Microbiology.
- Baligh Yehia's study on HIV+ transgender people featured in Penn Medicine. Read more...
- Phillipe Bourgois named a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Read more...
- Gregory Sonnenberg given an NIH Director's Early Indepedence Award. Read more...