IAS award for a Delhi Researcher

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International AIDS Society announces inaugural recipients of innovative HIV

research awards

14 July 2010 (Geneva, Switzerland) – The International AIDS Society (IAS) today

announced the recipients of its first joint research grant programme, Creative

and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR). CNIHR grants, funded in partnership

with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH-supported Centers

for AIDS Research (CFARs) are designed to promote innovative research and new

ideas from early stage investigators whose primary focus has previously been in

fields of scientific inquiry other than HIV/ AIDS.

The CNIHR grants, which total $3.4 million (U.S. $) will fund research projects

for up to two years. They are intended to advance the scientific understanding

of HIV and to support new approaches to answer pressing scientific questions on

issues such as the long-term survival of individuals with HIV infection and new

approaches to the prevention of HIV transmission.

The 10 outstanding early stage researchers who have been selected for the

initial grants come from a wide range of scientific disciplines and locations,

including Australia, India, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the

United States. Their research projects will be supported in collaboration with a

CFAR institution with expertise in the grantee's area of research.

The grantees will be awarded scholarships to attend the XVIII International AIDS

Conference in Vienna on 18-23 July 2010. A pre-conference seminar with leading

scientists in the HIV field is designed to give grantees an overview on HIV

science and to present their projects. It will be followed by daily training and

networking sessions at the conference. Grantees will also attend outreach trips

to clinics, HIV research institutions, and community organizations in Vienna.

The award ceremony will take place on 23 July 2010 at AIDS 2010 at the XVIII

International AIDS Conference at the Wien Messe Center in Vienna, Austria, at

8:45 a.m., immediately before that day's plenary session.

The CNIHR grants is awarded to:

Amit Singh, DBT/Wellcome Trust intermediate fellow from the International Center

For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, for the project: Measuring

intracellular redox potential of HIV-1 infected macrophages; who will be working

with Dr. Rafi Ahmed, Emory Vaccine Ctr, Emory/ICGEB joint vaccine center, New

Delhi.

Alan Brotherton (Geneva, Switzerland)

Director of Policy and Communications

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Lindsey Rodger

Communications Assistant

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