CFAR gets $10 million NIH renewal

The Center for AIDS Research at Emory (CFAR) received a five-year $10 million renewal from the NIH. Having CFAR at Emory has been critical to growing HIV/AIDS research funding at the university. When Emory received its first funding in 1997, the university had $11.3 million in HIV/AIDS research funding and ranked No. 23 in the nation. Now, Emory ranks sixth in the country for HIV/AIDS NIH funding, with $63.8 million in HIV/AIDS research support. Additionally, 20 percent of Emory's total NIH funding is HIV/AIDS-related funding, contributing to a 63 percent growth in research funding since 2010.

CFAR at Emory University is co-directed by Carlos del Rio, Hubert Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health, Dean James Curran, and Eric Hunter, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.