CFAR Pilot Award Program
The Pilot Award Program is aimed toward junior investigators and senior postdoctoral fellows with translational, clinical and/or behavioral-epidemiological research interests who have an innovative HIV research idea, are seeking to initiate a project, or wish to gather preliminary data and findings leading to a future grant effort.
- Term: 1 year
- Number of awards: Dependent on available funding
- Award amount: $40,000 in direct costs
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Eligibility: Faculty members at the level of assistant professor (three years or less) or post-doctoral fellows at UCSF or affiliated with our
partner institutes
. More senior faculty members may apply, provided they are newly entering the field of HIV research.
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Pilot Award:
Application Guidelines
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The Fall 2013 RFA begins
August 12 - September 23, 2013
Active General Pilot Awards
| Name | Project Title | Award Date | | Roland Krug, PhD | In Vivo Assessment of Bone quality in HIV-Infected Patients to Better Predict Fracture | Fall 2012 |
| Paul Baum, MD, PhD | Effect of the Timing of HIV Infection Treatment on the Reconstitution of the T Cell Receptor Repertoire | Spring 2012 |
| Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS | Immunologic Biomarkers for Ruling-out Active Tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS | Spring 2012 |
| Richard M. Dunham, PhD | Influence of intestinal microbiota on HIV pathogenesis | Spring 2012 |
| Prasanna Jagannathan, MD, PhD | Cellular Determinants of Anti-rebound to Malaria in HIV-Exposed Children Discontinuing Chemoprophylaxis | Spring 2012 |
| Sheri A. Lippman, PhD, MPH | Reaching transgender women with home-based, self-HIV testing in San Francisco: a pilot acceptability and feasibility study | Spring 2012 |
| Jeffrey M. Milush, PhD | Integrated Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling HIV-Associated Immune Activation | Spring 2012 |
| Andre Raposo, PhD | Solving the Puzzle: HIV-1 Restriction by Innate-associated HLA-Mediated Mechanisms | Spring 2012 |
| Janet K. Shim, PhD. MPP | The REAP Study: Returning Estimates of Ancestry to Participants | Spring 2012 |
| Elizabeth Fair, MD, PhD | Household HIV Testing During Tuberculosis Contact Investigation in Tanzania | Fall 2011 |
| Colette Auerswald, MD, MS | It Takes a Village: Community Engagement in San Francisco and Kisumu to reduce HIV risk in Homeless Youth and Street Children | Spring 2011 |
| Kimberly Baltzell, PhD | Provider Practices with Childhood Non-Malarial Fevers: A Pilot Study in Zanzibar | Spring 2011 |
| Diane Binson, PhD | Translating Results from an RCT Methods Study to Improve the Accuracy of Evaluations of HIV Interventions | Spring 2011 |
| Edwin D. Charlebois, MPH, PhD | Novel Computational Biology Methods for the Evaluation of Multi-Level/Combination Community HIV Prevention Interventions | Spring 2011 |
| Katerina Christopoulos, MD, MPH | Retention in HIV Care and Survival: Estimating Association and Causal Effect | Spring 2011 |
| Marie-Claude Couture, PhD, MS | Drug and Alcohol Abuses, Risky Sexual Behaviors, and HIV Risk among Sex Workers and Their Clients in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia: A Pilot Study and Assessment of Prevention Opportunities | Fall 2010 |
| J. Lucian Davis, MD, MAS | The Clinical and Public Health Impact of Automated Nucleic Acid Testing for TB in San Francisco | Fall 2010 |
| Henri-Alexandre Michaud, PharmD, PhD | Mobilizing the Humoral Immune Response against Human Endogenous Retroviruses to Control HIV-1 Viral Replication | Fall 2010 |
| Okeoma Mmeje, MD, MPH | Acceptability, Feasibility, and Efficacy of Vaginal Insemination for Conception in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Discordant Couples (Female Positive, Male Negative) Seeking Pregnancy in Kenya | Fall 2010 |
| Margaret Feeney, PhD | Effect of Malaria Chemoprevention on Naturally Acquired T-Cell Mediated Immunity to Malaria | Spring 2010 |
| Elvin Geng, MD, MPH | Implementing a Sampling-based Approach to Measuring Patient Outcomes Among HIV-infected Patients Lost to Follow-up in East Africa: the I-SAMPOLE Study | Spring 2010 |
| Elizabeth Sinclair, PhD | Biomarkers of Atherosclerosis Risk in HIV-1 Infection | Spring 2010 |
| Khady Diouf, MD | Provision of Extended Neviparine to Breastfeeding Infants to Reduce Postnatal Transmission of HIV in a Resource-limited Setting: Feasibility, Safety and Effectiveness in a Real world Setting | Spring 2010 |
| Shari Dworkin, PhD | Property Rights and HIVIAIDS Prevention: Examining the Impact of a Community Land and Property WatchDog Model In Nyanza and Western Provinces, Kenya | Spring 2010 |
| Lisa Dillabaugh, MD | Prevention of TB in HIV-infected Children in Kenya: An Evaluation of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy | Fall 2009 |
| Megan J. Huchko, MD, MPH | HIV-1 Genital Shedding in Women Before and After Treatment for Cervical Dysplasia | Fall 2009 |
| John Metcalfe, MD, MPH | Non-Commercial Culture Methods for Rapid Screening of Patients at Risk of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Zimbabwe | Fall 2009 |
| Devi SenGupta, MD | HERV-specific CD4+ T Cell Responses in HIV-1 Infected Individuals | Fall 2009 |
| Steven Yukl, MD | Investigation of HIV Levels, Latent Reservoirs, and Mechanisms of Latency in the Gut | Fall 2009 |
| Carol Camlin, PhD, MPH | Sex Differences in Patterns of Migration and HIV Risk in Western Kenya | Spring 2009 |
| Shari Dworkin, PhD | Laying the Groundwork to Test a Science-Based Gender Transformative HIV prevention Intervention with Heterosexually Active Men in South Africa | Spring 2009 |
| Janet Molzan Turan, PhD, MPH | Formative Research for the Adaptation of an Intervention of HIVAIDS Service Providers on Gender-Based Violence in Rural Western Kenya | Spring 2009 |
| Colette Auerswald, MD, MS | Kisumu Street Children: A Pilot Study of STIs and HIV in Social Context | Fall 2008 |
| Sara Newmann, MD, MPH | Decreasing Unintended Pregnancy and Vertical Transmission of HIV Through Family Planning: Where Do Men Fit In? | Fall 2008 |
| Judith Hahn, PhD | Alcohol Use and HIV Treatment Failure in Mbarara, Uganda | Spring 2008 |
