# Penn Center for AIDS Research

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2021 · $4,014,123

## Abstract

CFAR Overview
ABSTRACT
This competing renewal application for the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) builds on an
outstanding record of dynamic scientific leadership, organizational structure, resources and infrastructure
that advance HIV/AIDS research across the integrated campus of the University of Pennsylvania, Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia & the Wistar Institute. The CFAR's mission is to catalyze cutting-edge science and
add value to the AIDS research enterprise through activities that could not be achieved by individual investigators
or research projects. The Center is comprised of 250 members from our 3 institutions, including 11 of the 12
Penn schools and 17 departments within the School of Medicine, and key partners. The success of the CFAR
in the last 5 years is reflected in >$200M in AIDS-related NIH funding over that time, key discoveries in AIDS
research priority areas including HIV cure, vaccine development, immune reservoirs, bio-behavioral
prevention & engagement in care, HIV coinfections/comorbidities & other areas, and 3 interdisciplinary
Scientific Working Groups with high impact outcomes including funding of a Martin Delaney Collaboratory.
Looking ahead, a comprehensive strategic planning process has led us to refine CFAR priorities, Core activities,
and Core leadership to leverage new expertise and cultivate new research leaders, and maintain a cutting-edge
focus for our SWGs. The Penn CFAR is now well-positioned to address critical challenges during the next 5
years. Our CFAR recently established two new SWGs (“Technology to Reduce HIV Disparities” & “HIV
Reservoirs & Tissue Immunology”) that have already achieved high impact discoveries and will be carried
forward to the next cycle. The CFAR supports a Developmental Core and 7 Shared Resource Cores (Clinical,
Virus & Reservoirs, Immunology, Prevention Science & Community Outreach, Biostatistics & Data Science,
Nonhuman Primate, and International) that provide essential support for the research mission. The CFAR is led
by Drs. Ronald Collman (Director) and Robert Gross (Co-Director) and governed by an Executive Committee
with input from an Internal Advisory Board, External Advisory Committee and Community Advisory Board.
The Penn CFAR has 4 highly inter-linked Specific Aims that enable it to achieve its mission: (1) Provide
scientific and administrative leadership and pilot funding to catalyze innovative, interdisciplinary research that
will lead to new knowledge and solutions for the AIDS crisis; (2) Attract, train, mentor and support the next
generation of HIV/AIDS researchers to ensure forward-looking scientific progress, draw non-AIDS investigators
into the field with cross-cutting interdisciplinary expertise, and launch the next generation of research leaders;
(3) Support, monitor and continually evolve a set of efficient, dynamic & innovative Shared Resource Cores that
both support HIV/AIDS investigators and lead the research agenda through development & dissem...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10212191
- **Project number:** 5P30AI045008-23
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Ronald G Collman
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $4,014,123
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1999-07-01 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10212191

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10212191, Penn Center for AIDS Research (5P30AI045008-23). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10212191. Licensed CC0.

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