Developmental Awardees (2015-Present)

Awardee: Krakower, Douglas;
Klompas, Michael

Topic Area: Advancing PrEP Delivery

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Using EHRs to Improve PrEP

Awardee: Scully, Eileen (Dugast, Anne-Sophie)

Topic Area: Glycomics in HIV Co-Morbidities

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Host pathogen glycans in HIV-TB

Awardee: Tapela, Neo; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen

Topic Area: Projects that Highlight the Value Added from Inter-CFAR Collaborations

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Male cancer care barriers in Botswana

Awardee: Hill, Alison

Topic Area: Development of Mathematical Models for Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy

Project Title: Therapeutics, Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Beatrice Karsten, Christina

Topic Area: Rational Glyco-Optimization of HIV-1 gp 120 to Promote B Cell Activation

Project Title: Vaccine

Awardee: Neilan, Anne M.

Topic Area: Cost-effectiveness of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in US Adolescents

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Powis, Kathleen

Topic Area: Breast Milk Oligosaccharides and HIV-Exposed Infant Gut Microbiome in Botswana

Project Title: Pathogenesis

Awardee: Ranasinghe, Srinika

Topic Area: Evaluating HIV-specific CD8+ T Cells Restricted by HLA Class II DRB1

Project Title: Vaccine

Awardee: Zash, Rebecca Marie

Topic Area: Understanding the Mechanism of Adverse Birth Outcomes among HIV-Infected Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in Botswana

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes, International

Awardee: Lodi, Sara

Supplement Area: Comparative causal analysis of randomized controlled trials & observational data

Project: Methods

Awardee: Patel, Kunjal

Supplement Area: Understanding Mechanisms of Cardiac Dysfunction in Perinatally HIV+ Young Adults

Project: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Subbaraman, Ramnath

Supplement Area: Evaluating 99DOTS, a novel cell phone-based strategy for real-time monitoring of adherence to tuberculosis therapy in people living with HIV/AIDS in India

Project: Behavioral and Social Sciences, International

Awardee: Zanoni. Brian

Topic Area: HIV Adolescent Readiness for Transition Scale in South Africa (HARTSS)

Project Title: Methods

Awardee: Batchelder, Abigail

Topic Area: Intersecting Stigmatized Identities & Engagement in HIV Treatment (INSIGHT) Study

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Awardee: Bebell, Lisa

Topic Area: Placental inflammation: a mechanism for poor outcomes in HEU infants

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes, International

Awardee: Gaiha, Gaurav

Topic Area: Optimizing CD8+ T cell Epitope Selection through Structure-based Network Analyses

Project Title: Vaccine, Pathogenesis

Awardee: Gosmann, Christina

Topic Area: Mechanisms mediating cervicovaginal bacteria-associated increased HIV risk

Project Title: Pathogenesis

Awardee: Katz, Ingrid

Topic Area: Standing Tall with South Africa

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences, International

Awardee: Yu, Wen-Han

Topic Area: Designing glyco-optimized HIV immunogens to improve cross-neutralization breadth

Project Title: Vaccine

Awardee: Chai, Peter

Topic Area: Acceptability and Feasibility of Digital Pills to Measure PrEP Adherence

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences, HIV Prevention

Awardee: Draz, Mohamed

Topic Area: Engineered magnetic nanoparticles to eliminate the latent HIV-1 reservoir

Project Title: Therapeutics

Awardee: Dugdale, Caitlin

Topic Area: Cost-effectiveness of repeat maternal HIV testing in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Project Title: Reproductive Health, Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Lee, Kwun Wing Guinevere

Topic Area: Characterizing HIV-1 Viral Reservoir Landscape in Blood and Tissues

Project Title: HIV Eradication

Awardee: Luckett, Rebecca

Topic Area: Development of a two-stage cervical cancer screening algorithm for Botswana

Project Title: Reproductive Health for HIV-Affected Populations, International, Botswana

Awardee: Masheto, Gaerolwe

Topic Area: Biomarkers of vascular endothelial dysfunction and pregnancy outcomes in HIV-infected vs. HIV-uninfected pregnant women

Project Title: Reproductive Health for HIV-Affected Populations, International, Botswana

Awardee: McCluskey, Suzzane

Topic Area: A Clinical Prediction Score for HIV Drug Resistance in Resource Limited Settings

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes, International, Uganda

Awardee: Mukerji, Shibani

Topic Area: Targeting Neurovascular Disease and Depression in Adults with HIV Infection

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations, Pathogenesis

Awardee: Raggio, Greer

Topic Area: Developing a pilot lifestyle intervention to prevent cardiovascular disease in older HlV-infected women

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations

Awardee: Toribio, Mabel

Topic Area: Macrophage-mediated Arterial Inflammation in Individuals with and without HIV

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations

Awardee: Abdallah, Amir

Topic Area: Impact of HIV-infection on Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Stroke in Uganda

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations

Awardee: Escudero, Daniel

Topic Area: Estimating the Effectiveness of the Miami Getting to Zero HIV Campaign

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Hua, Stephane

Topic Area: Innate immune mechanisms of viral reservoir reduction

Project Title: HIV Eradication

Awardee: Kruse, Gina

Topic Area: Understanding tobacco use & cessation among HIV-care individuals in Chennai, India

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations, International, India

Awardee: Lofano, Giuseppe

Topic Area: Developing HIV antibody glycoforms-based vaccine adjuvants

Project Title: Vaccines

Awardee: Lu, Michael

Topic Area: Endothelial shear stress, inflammation, and coronary plaque progression in HIV

Project Title : Non-Communicable Diseases among HIV-Infected Populations

Awardee: Wu, Julia Wei

Topic Area: Designing pooled next generation sequencing algorithms for affordable HIV drug resistance surveillance in Africa

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Hill, Alison

Topic Area: Quantifying the turnover of latently infected cells using HIV genetic signatures

Project Title: HIV Eradication

Awardee: Leslie, Hanah

Topic Area: Health service quality as a driver of HIV testing and retention in care in rural South Africa

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences, International, South Africa

Awardee: Shava, Emily

Topic Area: Acceptability and uptake of HIV self-testing among female sex workers in Botswana

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences, International, Botswana

Awardee: Velasquez, Gutsavo

Topic Area: Safety and tolerability of linezolid for the treatment of MDR-TB in HIV-positive patients

Project Title: TB/HIV Co-Infection, International

Awardee: Barczak, Amy

Topic Area: The impact of HIV co-infection on the macrophage response to M. tuberculosis infection

Project Title: TB/HIV Co-Infection

Awardee: Bloom, Seth

Topic Area: Microbiota modulation of genital T helper subsets and effects on HIV transmission

Project Title: Reproductive Health for HIV-Affected Populations, International, South Africa

Awardee: Evans, Shannon

Topic Area: Examining the development of drug resistance in postpartum women living with HIV

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes, International, South Africa

Awardee: Fitch, Calvin

Topic Area: Maximizing PreP Uptake and Adherence in Young Black MSM

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Awardee: Simon, Tracey

Topic Area: The Epidemiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients with HIV

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes

Awardee: Usmani, Shariq

Topic Area: Targeting a novel immune evasion strategy of HIV-1 for developing synergistic therapy

Project Title: Pathogenesis

Awardee: Gounder, Kamini

Topic Area: Neutralization of HIV-1 subtype C reservoir viruses from human lymph nodes

Project Title: HIV Eradication and Vaccine, International, South Africa

Awardee: Ngwenya, Nothando

Topic Area: A concept analysis of health literacy in young people living with HIV

Project Title: Behavioral and Social Sciences, International, South Africa

Awardee: Ashaba, Scholastic

Topic Area: Transition readiness among adolescents living with HIV in Uganda

Project Title: Adolescence & HIV, International, Uganda

Awardee: Ganapathi, Lakshmi

Topic Area: HIV service utilization among young people who inject drugs in India

Project Title: Bio-behavioral and Community Science, International, India

Awardee: Jilg, Nickolaus

Topic Area: Baseline Resistance of HIV-1 Subtype C against Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies

Project Title: Pathogenesis, Therapeutics

Awardee: North, Crystal

Topic Area: Air pollution, HIV serostatus, and lung inflammation in rural Uganda

Project Title: Non-communicable Diseases

Awardee: Figueroa, Jose

Topic Area: Understanding the effect of HIV on spending, utilization, and patient outcomes related to other chronic conditions among older U.S. adults

Project Title: HIV and Aging Diseases

Awardee: Sun, Haoqi

Topic Area: Electroencephalogram-Based Brain Age in People Living with HIV

Project Title: HIV and Aging Diseases

Awardee: Balazs, Alex

Topic Area: Human Immune System Mouse

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Humanized Mouse from Adult Cadavers

Awardee: Ard, Kevin

Topic Area: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EtHE) initiative

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Mobile, venue-based PrEP for MSM

Awardee: Chu, Jacqueline

Topic Area: HIV Healthcare Systems and Differentiated Approaches to Improve Viral Suppression

Project Title: Harvard Center for AIDS Research: Intensive Case Management to EtHE

Awardee: Marcus, Julia

Topic Area: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EtHE) initiative

Project Title: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: EHRs to scale up PrEP in the South

Awardee: Escudero, Daniel

Topic Area: Strategic Partnerships to End the HIV Epidemic in America’s Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations

Project Title: Harvard Center for AIDS Research: Enhancing US HIV prevention models

Awardee: Boudries, Malika

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Pre-vaccination Biomarkers of Vaccines Protection Efficacy

Project Title: General Supplement: Methodology and Data Science of HIV

Awardee: Ojikutu, Bisola

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Clinical Decision Support for PrEP

Project Title: EHE 1 Year supplement – Reaching Cisgender Heterosexual Women with PrEP

Awardee: Marcus, Julia; Krakower, Douglas

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Clinical Decision Support for PrEP

Project Title: FY2020 EHE 2 Year supplement – 2-Year Award Opportunity (Only for Recipients of FY19 CFAR/ARC EHE Supplements)

Awardee: Escudero, Daniel

Topic Area: Improving Routine Opt-out HIV Screening in the Emergency Department in Miami, Florida

Project Title: FY2021 EHE CFAR/ARC Supplement – EHE Team-initiated Implementation Research

Awardee: Mohareb, Amir

Topic Area: Addressing the burden of HIV-hepatitis B in commercial sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa

Project Title: FY2021 CFAR Supplement – Disparities in Treatment and Outcomes in People with HIV with multiple comorbidities and co-infections

Awardee: O​g​u​n​b​a​j​o​, A​d​e​d​o​t​u​n​

Topic Area:  Intersectional stigma & HIV care outcomes among sexual minority men in Nigeria

Project Title: FY2021 CFAR Supplement – Intersectional Stigma and its Effect on HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care

Awardee: Koofhethile, Catherine

Topic Area: Characterization of proviral reservoir among adolescents on long-term antiretroviral therapy

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, HIV Eradication

Awardee: Li, Peng

Topic Area: Circadian disturbances and cognitive impairment in people living with HIV

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, HIV & Aging

Awardee: Manne-Goehler, Jennifer

Topic Area: Two novel biomarkers to evaluate metabolic risk in people with HIV (PWH) – a pilot study

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Non-communicable Disease

Name: Singh, Parmit

Topic Area: The role of splicing in HIV-1

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Pathogenesis

Name: Stanton, Amelia

Topic Area: Mental health barriers to PrEP uptake among pregnant women in South Africa

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Bio-behavioral and Community Science

Name: Barnhart, Dale

Topic Area: Support groups for HIV-positive youth: clinical outcomes and youth perspectives

Project Title: FY2021 Renewal Award, Adolescence & HIV Research

Awardee: Ganapathi, Lakshmi

Topic Area: Assessing utilization of HIV prevention and treatment services by young people who inject drugs in India

Project Title: FY2021 Renewal Award, Bio-behavioral and Community Science Research

Awardee: Jilg, Nikolaus

Topic Area: Baseline Resistance of HIV-1 Subtype C against Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies

Project Title: FY2021 Renewal Award, Pathogenesis Research

Awardee: Bartsch, Yannic

Topic Area: Antibody glycosylation as marker and mechanism of spontaneous HIV control

Project Topic : FY2021 Developmental Award, Pathogenesis

Awardee: Hartana, Ciputra

Topic Area: Trained Immunity in HIV-1 elite controllers

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Pathogenesis

Awardee: Jarolimova, Jana

Topic Area: Implementing a rapid test for gonorrhea and chlamydia among adults at risk for HIV

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Reproductive Health

Awardee: Nardell, Maria

Topic Area: The impact of internal migration on men’s engagement in HIV care in South Africa

Project Title: FY2021 Developmental Award, Bio-behavioral and Community Science

Awardee: Ard, Kevin

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Optimizing HIV testing for people who inject drugs in Massachusetts

Project Title: FY2022 EHE CFAR/ARC Supplement – Implementation Strategies to Facilitating a Status Neutral Approach to HIV Prevention and Treatment

Awardee: Batchelder, Abigail

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Status Neutral Psycho-Behavioral Capacity Building Intervention for People Who Use Drugs

Project Title: FY2022 EHE CFAR/ARC Supplement – Implementation Strategies to Facilitating a Status Neutral Approach to HIV Prevention and Treatment

Awardee: Ciaranello, Andrea; Ghebremichael, Musie; Haberer, Jessica

Topic Area Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Increasing participation and retention of investigators who are underrepresented in medicine in Harvard University CFAR activities

Project Title: FY2022 CFAR Supplement – CFAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pipeline Initiative (CDEIPI)

Awardee: Guss, Carly

Topic Area: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research: Tailoring HIV/PrEP Education Messages for Adolescents (THEMA) Study

Project Title: FY2022 EHE CFAR/ARC Supplement – Applying behavioral economic approaches to design implementation strategies for HIV testing, prevention, and care

Awardee: Chiosi, John

Topic Area: Cost-Effectiveness of Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention in People Who Inject Drugs

Project Title: Health Economics & Modeling Research

Awardee: Lee, Jasper S.

Topic Area: Identifying and exploring impacts and interrelationships of syndemic problems on HIV outcomes in South Africa

Project Title: Bio-behavioral and Community Science Research

Awardee: Mabweazara, Smart

Topic Area: Design and Pilot evaluation of a physical activity intervention for obese living with HIV on dolutegravir-based in rural South Africa

Project Title: Non-Communicable Diseases Research

Awardee: Matias, Wilfredo

Topic Area: Barriers and facilitators of HIV care among migrants in the Dominican Republic

Project Title: Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research

Awardee: Meressa-Kokebu, Daniel

Topic Area: Effect of HIV status in MDR-TB post-treatment outcomes & all-oral treatment outcomes in Africa

Project Title: HTB/HIV Co-infection

Awardee: Ogunshola, Funsho

Topic Area: Phenotype, Function and Molecular Characterization of HIV-specific CD4+ T cells in HIV controllers and Vaccine Recipients

Project Title: Pathogenesis Research

Awardee: Quach, Lien

Topic Area: Social Connections and Physical Function in Older Women with HIV

Project Title: HIV and Aging Research

Awardee: Reddy, Kavidha

Topic Area: The role of myeloid cell populations in HIV-1 reservoir establishment in acute-treated individuals

Project Title: HIV Eradication

Awardee: Waldron, Elizabeth

Topic Area: Trauma-related health behaviors and adverse birth outcomes among women living with HIV in South Africa

Project Title: Bio-behavioral and Community Science Research