February 23, 2021
Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, co-authored a six-paper series in The Lancet focused on racial, sexual, and gender minorities continuing to be affected by HIV at significantly higher rates than white people, a disparity also reflected in the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 15, 2021
UNC School of Medicine HIV researchers J. Victor Garcia, PhD, and David Margolis, MD, published a high-profile paper in Nature in 2020 on HIV latency reversal, a discovery Nature dubbed as one of the 10 most remarkable discoveries from 2020.
December 1, 2020
Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG, has been appointed as a Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Scholar. Her work will focus on the health of women involved with the criminal justice system.
November 24, 2020
Working towards a cure for HIV requires many things – tenacity, determination, and collaboration. Nilu Goonetilleke, an immunologist in the UNC School of Medicine, is well-equipped to meet this challenge.
August 27, 2020
UNC researchers are partnering with colleagues at four institutions in Africa to study HIV-associated malignancies. Led by Blossom Damania, PhD, the research team received a five-year, $6-million grant from the National Cancer Institute.
August 27, 2020
The new video series from Medscape includes compelling stories of people living with HIV and interviews with UNC School of Medicine's Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Kate Muessig, PhD, and Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS, of the UNC Behavior and Technology Lab in the division of infectious diseases.
July 8, 2020
Myron Cohen, MD, and several colleagues in the division of infectious diseases and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, were featured in this in-depth "Time and Tenacity" Endeavors magazine article on HIV and COVID-19 research.
December 11, 2019
National Geographic selected the multinational HPTN 052 HIV trial, led by Myron Cohen, MD, as one of the discoveries of the decade.
October 29, 2019
Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, in the department of medicine, was selected for this honor for her integral work in the field of HIV prevention.
October 14, 2019
The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study / Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study is a collaborative research effort to understand and reduce the impact of chronic health conditions that affect people living with HIV. Adaora Adimora, MD, leads the UNC-Chapel Hill site, one of 13 across the country.
September 13, 2018
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV Cure Center and Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools and scalable solutions for the sorting and isolation of single cells, announced they have received an approximately $283,000, 12-month Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an automated platform to quantify the latent HIV reservoir.
June 4, 2018
Led by J. Victor Garcia, PhD, UNC researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that T cells in the brain may be an important HIV reservoir that should be targeted by HIV cure approaches.