Development Core The objectives of the Development Core are to extend the impact of the Center’s activities to the next generation of scientists by engaging early career scientists or investigators new to HIV in limited-duration funded collaborations with Center investigators, to enrich the training environment within the Center for students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career investigators by providing educational activities and mentoring, and to broaden the Center’s outreach by welcoming undergraduate scholars from diverse backgrounds into CRNA research groups to provide these learners with introductions to biomedical research. These objectives will be achieved by (1) Establishing a vigorous collaborative development plan, through which scientists outside the core CRNA membership can contribute to and benefit from the CRNA (2) Conducting Hands-on Workshops that enable collaborations and promote the exchange of Center expertise by engaging trainees in in-depth introductions to the use and collaborative capabilities of the Center’s advanced technologies (3) Providing mentoring to trainees and facilitating their interdisciplinary research progress by providing Center trainees with engaged feedback on their scientific presentations and with opportunities to engage in laboratory training exchanges among research groups and (4) Helping foster the next generation of scientists by providing research and educational experiences in CRNA labs for undergraduates from diverse backgrounds.