# JHU Center for the Advancement of HIV Neurotherapeutics (JHU CAHN) - Development Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $226,980

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – DEVELOPMENTAL CORE
The JHU NIMH Center Developmental Core was established to promote innovative, high-risk, high-impact
NeuroHIV research through the use of Pilot Project Grants. Through the lifecycle of the Developmental Core, 46
pilot projects have funded this type of research. Awardees subsequently published 137 articles directly linked to
their pilot funding and obtained over $18 million dollars in subsequent follow-up awards. To align with the
Center’s priorities of developing therapeutics for the CNS complications in PWH and to enhance workforce
development, we propose the implementation of three new initiatives: 1) establish an online pilot grant dashboard
to broaden reviewer participation and career development monitoring; 2) initiate a microgrant funding program
to fund cutting-edge technological advances and latest developments in the NeuroHIV field; and 3) initiate a
community science education program and a community engagement speaker series to foster the development
of scientists who can talk about the significance of their research in a manner that educates, engages, and offers
opportunity for participation from members in our HIV community. While most recent data shows that progress
is being made in providing support to early stage and new investigators as they advance in their careers to
independent investigators, there continues to be a need for directed mitigation strategies for women and
underrepresented minority trainees. With these new initiatives as well as close collaboration with the Clinical
Core, we expect to over the next five years to strengthen the pilot grant administration process, enhance one-
to-one mentoring and opportunities for collaboration between NIMH Centers on novel drug development
targeting CNS complication in virally suppressed people with HIV.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10792913
- **Project number:** 5P30MH075673-18
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Ahmet Hoke
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $226,980
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2006-06-16 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10792913

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10792913, JHU Center for the Advancement of HIV Neurotherapeutics (JHU CAHN) - Development Core (5P30MH075673-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10792913. Licensed CC0.

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