New AMfAR Request for Proposals

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UNDERSTANDING, MITIGATING, AND PREVENTING HIV TRANSMISSION AND

INFECTION

amfAR announces the availability of support for targeted biomedical

research projects relevant to understanding, mitigating, and

preventing HIV transmission and infection.

Improving prevention strategies that would complement risk behavior

modification approaches is a top priority in fighting the HIV/AIDS

epidemic. A better understanding of the events that surround and

affect transmission and infection would aid in the development of

new methods of preventing infection or diminishing its spread after

infection has taken place. Recent research suggests there are

several time points at which interventions could help prevent or

modify HIV infection: before transmission takes place; after

transmission, but before proviral integration; and after

integration, but before the generalized spread of infection. amfAR

wishes to promote the development of practical strategies that could

be used at any of these time points.

The request for proposals (RFP), forms, and instructions are posted

at www.amfar.org/rfp.

The Letter of Intent submission deadline is November 8, 2005.

Funding is available for:

GRANTS

$75,000 direct costs for one year starting January 1, 2006.

Investigators must be faculty-level researchers affiliated with a

nonprofit institution.

FELLOWSHIPS

$35,000 salary/fringe and $10,000 for supplies (direct costs) for

each of two years starting January 1, 2006. Fellowship applicants

are to be postdoctoral investigators with limited experience in the

field seeking to further advance a career in HIV/AIDS research, and

must be sponsored by an experienced HIV/AIDS scientist at the

associate professor level or higher. Fellow and sponsor must be

affiliated with the same nonprofit institution.

Please see the RFP posted at www.amfar.org/rfp for complete details.

amfAR grants are made to nonprofit organizations worldwide.

Applicant investigators, fellows, and sponsors need not be U.S.

citizens, and there are no restrictions as to age, color, creed,

gender, medical condition, handicap, national origin, parental

status, political affiliation, race, religion, marital status, or

sexual orientation.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to colleagues who might also

be interested in responding to amfAR RFPs.

If you experience difficulty accessing the RFP or downloading the

instructions and forms, please contact grants@....