2019
January
John Koethe, MD, MSCI and Matthew Freiberg, MD, MSc - "The Vanderbilt Scholars in HIV and Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Research (V-SCHoLARS): a new K12 training program in HIV comorbidities research for VUMC and Meharry junior faculty"
February
Suman Das, PhD - "A cutting-edge end to end pipeline to probe role of microbiome in health and diseases"
March
Jessica Castilho, MD, MPH - "Senescence and exhaustion of T Cell Memory subsets increased in aging adults with HIV"
April
Peter Rebeiro, PhD - "Trends and disparities in mortality and progression to AIDS: HIV in TN during the first two decades of the HAART era"
May
Matthew Lang, PhD - "Mechanosensing and T-cell Recognition"
June
Mekeila Cook, PhD - "Investigating HIV Linkage to Care and Drug Overdose in TN"
July
Jui Pandhare, PhD - "Effects of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors on Neuronal Function"
September
Manus Donahue, PhD - "Imaging of Lymphoid Tissue Function Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging: New Potential for Mapping HIV Viral Reservoirs"
October
Todd Hulgan, MD, MPH - "Mitochondrial Genetics and Cognitive Performance in HIV"
November
C. William Wester, MD, MPH and Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH - "Renal Risk Reduction (R3) Study in Nigeria (DK112271): Preliminary Results and Future Directions"
December
Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, PhD - "The Epidemiology of Pulomnary Hypertension in Veterans Living with HIV"
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February
Meredith Brantley, MPH, PhD - "CDC National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) Project in Memphis - A Great New Opportunity for Cross-Institutional Collaboration"
March
Benjamin Siller, PhD (2017 CFAR Developmental Core Awardee) - "Development of Single Chain Antibody Mimics of T-cell Receptors as a Novel Immunotherapy Strategy"
Xinhong Dong, PhD (2016 CFAR Supplement Recipient) - "Structural Basis of the Interaction Between HIV-1 Gag and Filamin A"
April
Jessica Perkins, PhD - "Social Norms and HIV Prevention"
May
Thomas Scherr, PhD - "Mobile phone-connected diagnostic test to facilitate enrollment in the HIV continuum of Care"
David Haas, MD - "Next steps from the March 2018 Inter-CFAR Workshop on Partnerships between HBCUs and CFARs"
June
Chris Aiken, PhD - "The gp41 Cytoplasmic Tail: the Final Frontier of HIV-1 ENV"
July
Aimalohi Ahonkhai, MD, MPH - "Trends and Predictors of Linkage to HIV Care in TN"
Mark Pilkinton, MD, PhD - "Single cell analysis of HIV-vaccine induced T cells"
August
Carolyn M. Audet, PhD - "Implementation Science: Lessons and Opportunities for HIV Researchers"
September
Leah Alexander, PhD, MPH - "Readiness for Rapid HIV Testing among African American Women (Part 1) "
R. Lyle Cooper, PhD - "The Effect of Stress on HIV Treatment Outcomes"
October
Yuri van der Heijden, MD, MPH - "Epidemiology of Drug-susceptible and Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa"
November
C. William Wester, MD, MPH - "Renal Risk Reduction (R3) RCT in Nigeria"
December
James Carlucci, MD, MPH - "Baby I want you back... Improving retention of HIV-exposed infants through enhanced understanding of attrition from HIV early infant diagnosis services in resource-limited settings"
