An interdisciplinary, city-wide consortium of researchers led by Alan E. Greenberg, M.D. ’82, M.P.H., professor and chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at GW, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund the newly established District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR).
Greenberg will serve as the director of the new DC CFAR, and Gary Simon, M.D., Ph.D., Walter G. Ross Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), will serve as the co-director. The consortium includes nearly 200 academic HIV investigators from three GW schools — Milken Institute SPH, SMHS, and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and five major Washington, D.C. research institutions — Georgetown University, Howard University, American University, the Children’s National Health System, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The mission of the DC CFAR is to expand the multi-institutional effort to support research that contributes to ending the HIV epidemic in Washington, D.C. and beyond, in partnership with government and community.
The NIH CFAR program emphasizes interdisciplinary and translational collaborations between basic, clinical, prevention, and behavioral investigators, with an emphasis on the inclusion of women and minority investigators.
