Lauren Sterling
Associate Director, UCSF-Bay Area CFAR
Note: Beginning with Fall 2016, The Basic Science program has been combined into the Mentored Scientist Award mechanism - which now has three scientific priority areas for funding: Basic Science, Clinical/ Translational/ Epidemiological/ Behavioral, and Implementation Science.
Below are the awards made under the Basic Science program from 1994 to 2016.
Despite heroic efforts and better highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV remains a lifelong infection that interferes with productivity, decreases lifespan, and is ultimately fatal. Wide-ranging vaccine trials have failed. Thus, this is an opportune time to turn to the persistent infection, and develop new therapies to purge the reservoir of HIV from the infected host.