Welcome to the January issue of the ARI email newsletter. This newsletter features information pertinent to researchers and staff engaged in HIV/AIDS research at the University of California, San Francisco, and its affiliates and community partners. Note that detailed information may be found by clicking on the hyperlinks.
Feature Story: ARI Supports Summit in Hanoi
In October 2004, the AIDS Research Institute (ARI) at UCSF joined UCSF leaders in pharmacy and international health and their Vietnamese peers to plan how Viet Nam's pharmacy workforce can curtail the spread of HIV in the country. Full story.
News from:
2. UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
b. CROI Abstracts - Final Reminder
Please provide a copy of your CROI abstract to CFAR's Administrative/Developmental Core by January 28...
c. CFAR Strategic PPGs Initiative Yields $15 Million HIV Latency Research Project: "Molecular Mechanisms of HIV Post-Integration Latency" proposes to investigate the contribution of postintegration latency to the persistence of HIV under HAART...
d. Recent Awards to CFAR-supported investigators or resulting from CFAR-supported core labs or pilot awards
a. The UCSF Qualitative Working Group: Emily Arnold: A Workshop in Qualitative Data Analysis: Examining the Effects of HIV-related Stigma and Homophobia on HIV Testing and Disclosure among African American Young MSM, February 1
b. CAPS Town Halls
Jeff Martin and Peter Chin Hong: "High-risk sexual behavior among HIV-infected individuals with drug resistance: findings of the SCOPE cohort," February 4
CAPS Policy Core Community Brown Bag: Dana van Gorder of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, February 11
Qiu Renzong: "The ethical challenges in carrying out HIV research in China," February 16
Majid Ezzati: "How We Estimate Disease Burdens, and What Are the Implications?" February 18
c. Voice Project Community Report-backs: The Voice Study will host two community report-backs in February: 2/3 in San Francisco and 2/10 in Oakland.
6. Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research
Dr. Janet Yamamoto from the University of Florida in Gainesville is on a mini-sabbatical (till March of this year) in Dr. Jay Levy's laboratory. Janet is well-known for the development of the FIV vaccine that is presently being used worldwide. If anyone would like to meet with her, please contact Dr. Levy.
7. Positive Health Program
Recent Publications: PHP's Dr. Laurence Huang has recently published the following articles:
Morris, A, Lundgren, JD, Masur, H, Walzer, PD, Hanson, DL, Frederick, T, Huang, L, Beard, CB, and Kaplan, JE. Current Epidemiology of Pneumocystis Pneumonia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2004;10:1713-1720.
Huang, L, Crothers, K, Atzori, C, Benfield, T, Miller, R, Rabodonirina, M, and Helweg-Larsen, J. Dihydropteroate Synthase Gene Mutations in Pneumocystis and Sulfa Resistance. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2004;10:1721-1728.
10. School of Medicine
Note: out most Mondays