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Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 | 4:00 pm ET | Gaulton Auditorium, 1st floor BRB“SOSIP-trimer/mRNA combination for novel preventive and therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine regimens“Wilton Williams, PhDAssociate Professor in Surgery Assistant Professor in Integrative Immunobiology Co-Director, Training and Mentoring Program Duke Human Vaccine Institute Duke University School of Medicine |
The NIH is making many changes in how it will solicit and award funding. One major change is it will markedly reduce the number of topic-specific RFAs (and even Program Announcements) across the board. Instead, they want applications to come in under standard Parent R01, R21 or similar funding mechanisms. However, they have developed a … Continue reading Significant NIH Policy Changes
Please join us as we welcome Wilton Williams, PhD for the next CFAR Seminar Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 | 4:00 pm ET | Gaulton Auditorium, 1st Floor BRB “SOSIP-trimer/mRNA combination for novel preventive and therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine regimens“ Wilton Williams, PhD Associate Professor in Surgery Assistant Professor in Integrative Immunobiology Co-Director, Training and Mentoring … Continue reading Wilton Williams, PhD | January 27, 2026
The most recent IS Core Seminar was held on December 3, 2025 Boriska A. Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD “Guiding, documenting, and assessing adaptations across the life cycle of a project” WATCH NOW
The Penn Implementation Science Institute 2026 (ISI), held June 23rd-26th, is a four-day virtual institute led by Penn faculty with expertise in implementation science and its related topics. The ISI aims to provide participants with the tools to design and execute rigorous implementation science research. Participants will receive an introduction to the foundations of implementation … Continue reading Penn Implementation Science Institute
Congratulations to Florence Momplaisir, who was awarded a Society Citation Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America! The Society Citation Award is a discretionary award given in recognition of exemplary contribution to IDSA, an outstanding discovery in the field of ID or a lifetime of outstanding achievement. Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP — associate professor in … Continue reading Florence Momplaisir receives IDSA Citation Award
The Penn Center for AIDS Research (Penn CFAR) is one of 19 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.
Our mission is to support and advance research in all areas of HIV/AIDS on the Penn/CHOP/Wistar campus and in the Philadelphia region by:
- catalyzing innovative collaborative AIDS research through working groups, outreach, partnerships on campus, regionally, and internationally
- providing education through seminars, courses, and workshops
- developing new HIV/AIDS investigators and research programs through pilot funding, mentorship, and partnership programs
- providing cutting-edge research support through innovative shared resource cores that offer unique services, materials, technical education and assistance, and collaborative support
- providing strategic planning on campus with campus, regional, and national HIV/AIDS research leadership
Penn CFAR Cores include the Clinical Core, Virus & Reservoirs Technology Core, Molecular & Translational Immunotechnology Core, Biostatistics & Data Science Core, Community Research & Engagement Core, Implementation Science Core, and International Core.