# Program for AIDS Clinical Research Training (PACRT)

> **NIH NIH T32** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2021 · $677,189

## Abstract

Project Summary
Over the past 35 years, dramatic advances in the understanding of HIV infection and its therapy have
transformed HIV into a highly treatable, chronic disease. With this evolution, critical questions have arisen
about how basic research and clinical trials relate to clinical epidemiology and outcomes research, both in the
U.S. and internationally. The goal of the Program for AIDS Clinical Research Training (PACRT)—which has
successfully trained leading HIV clinical investigators for the past 25 years—is to provide training in
quantitative research methodologies with a focus on HIV clinical research to pre-doctoral PhD students and
physicians at formative stages in their careers. This training has prepared both groups: to conduct clinical
research of the highest quality and of direct relevance to the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. They
will make important contributions to the scientific literature and successfully develop as independent
investigators. In the next grant cycle, the PACRT candidates will receive two years of research training under
the close supervision and mentorship of one or more of the 14 experienced program faculty members.
Trainees will receive didactic training at Harvard School of Public Health or other Harvard University sites.
Primary performance sites for the five post-doctoral fellows will be the Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard
Medical School. The primary site for the two pre-doctoral fellows will be the Harvard School of Public Health.
This program has three specific aims for its trainees:
1) To acquire a sufficient body of knowledge of quantitative methods to conduct independent research in:
 clinical epidemiology, clinical trials, cost-effectiveness analysis, outcomes research, and/or implementation
science.
2) To foster the creation of important scientific contributions with the close and longitudinal mentorship of
 program faculty.
3) To develop a primary research focus and a broad understanding of the various aspects of HIV disease for
 novel interdisciplinary research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10164705
- **Project number:** 5T32AI007433-30
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Kenneth Alan Freedberg
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $677,189
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1992-09-30 → 2022-07-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10164705

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10164705, Program for AIDS Clinical Research Training (PACRT) (5T32AI007433-30). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10164705. Licensed CC0.

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