Announcing the 2026 CFAR Scientific Symposium!
HIV Frontiers: Healthy Living and Progress to Cure
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
8:15 am – 6:00 pm
Arthur Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research
Registration is now open for the 2026 Penn CFAR Scientific Symposium Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 8:15 am – 6:00 pm Arthur Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research HIV Frontiers: Healthy Living and Progress to Cure Keynote Speakers Mauricio Martins, PhD Associate Professor The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology “AAV-Delivered … Continue reading The Penn CFAR Scientific Symposium | September 30th, 2026
Join us for the 2025-2026 CFAR Seminar Series, beginning this fall. Stay tuned for more details! Fall 2026 Wednesday, October 21st, 2026 | 12:00 pm ET “The Relentless Pursuit of Broad Neutralization Against HIV and Coronaviruses by Targeted Vaccines” Raiees Andrabi, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Perelman School of Medicine, University … Continue reading Announcing the Penn CFAR 2026-2027 Seminar Series
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
NIH has just announced that the special deadline for AIDS grants is going to be discontinued, and after the May 7, 2026 AIDS due date (Cycle I) deadlines will shift to align with regular deadlines. This includes continuous submission for standing members of HIV panels on June 1. See the announcements below. If you have … Continue reading Change in NIH AIDS Grant Submission Deadlines
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.