The ARI is no longer funding Strategic Support Awards but will consider funding UCSF researchers conducting innovative work in HIV/AIDS who submit proposals through the RAP process
Funded in 2023 through RAP Pilot for Established Investigators
Empowering adolescent girls and young women with PrEP: Integrating linkages to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis into the Queen Club intervention in Tanzania
Developing automated, sensitive, simultaneous, and validated analysis of alcohol biomarker and antiretroviral drug (ARV) in Dried Blood Spot (DBS) using automated DBS extraction system combined with high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Examining the interplay between COVID-19, HIV, and substance use, among people living with HIV in San Francisco: implications for prevention and intervention
Assess community needs to improve health in persons economically disadvantaged, racial minorities, LGBTQ people, and the homeless persons living in encampments of Alameda County
Funded in 2019
In 2019, the ARI supported Strategic Awards for a fourth year. The year's awardees are:
Understanding Mobility and Risk in SEARCH Communities
Funded in 2017
In 2017, the ARI supported Strategic Awards for a second year. With the 2017 awards, detailed below, we targeted awards for postdocs who had lost a key federal funding source:
A new policy at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) discontinued funding for essential pilot awards for postdocs. Postdocs rely on pilot funding like this to establish their research portfolios and advance in their careers.
ARI quickly created a stopgap grant mechanism to provide pilot research support for the postdocs impacted by the NIAID policy.
These funds enabled 6 postdocs to proceed with their pilot research projects - filling a potentially career-threatening gap in research support.
ARI joined calls from across the country for NIAID to continue funding essential pilot awards. The NIAID policy has since been reversed and the pilot grants—now more in demand than ever—are expected to continue.
