National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

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Partnerships with this Institute

Program

The new HIT_TB project is another Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, along with Pfizer Inc., and academic institutions in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Its focus is on combating tuberculosis, which infects one-third of the world’s population.

Lectures & Awards

The Pew Charitable Trusts worked through the Foundation for NIH to award grants totaling $225,000 to three postdoctoral fellows at NIH. The Pew Latin American Fellows Program in Biomedical Sciences aims to help develop a generation of highly trained researchers who can stimulate and contribute to the growth of important biomedical research and to foster collaboration between scientists in Latin America and the United States.

Program

This project aims to address a fundamental problem blocking the development of a successful HIV-1 vaccine. The goal is to understand how best to design T cell immunogens to address the broad genetic diversity of HIV-1.

Scholarships & Fellowships

The Swanson Family Fellowship supports research in TTF-1 Mutation Causing Benign Chorea in the laboratory of infectious diseases under the direction of Steven M. Holland, M.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH.

Key Initiatives

The Foundation for NIH is one of 19 consortia comprising the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. Funded by the Gates Foundation, this initiative is aimed toward developing an effective AIDS vaccine.