UCLA CTSI R Grant Writing Two-Day Virtual Workshop
2023-11-02 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
The UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) will be holding a two-day workshop for investigators at the CTSI partnered institutions (Cedars-Sinai, CDU, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, and UCLA) to learn about how to prepare successful R grant applications.
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"Pregnancy, HIV/Hepatitis B and the IMPAACT Network: Leveraging Clinical Trial Repositories to Answer Key Questions for Persons Living with HIV and HBV"
2023-11-02 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Pregnancy, HIV/Hepatitis B and the IMPAACT Network: Leveraging Clinical Trial Repositories to Answer Key Questions for Persons Living with HIV and HBV
Thursday, November 2, 2023
11:00 am-12:00 pm PST
Speakers:
Debika Bhattacharya, MD, MSc
Clinical Professor, Division of ID
Associate Director, ID Fellowship Training Program, UCLA
Co-Director, NODES Program, VAGLAHS
Co-Director, Viral Hepatitis Program, VAGLAHS
Heather Sprenger, MS
Laboratory Data Division Chief
Frontier Science Foundation

2023 Women and HIV Symposium: Women and HIV across the Lifespan
2023-12-06 - 2023-12-07 | San Francisco, CA
The Symposium will feature three sessions on the following topics, as well as two networking lunches and an NIH Research Priorities and Listening Session:

Reproductive Health and HIV: From Policy to Practice

​Speakers include: Judy Levinson, Elizabeth Lowenthal, and a patient perspective

Antiretroviral Therapy and Metabolism in the Era of INSTIs: Sex and Gender Differences

​Speakers include: Cecile Lahiri, Amanda Willig, Julie Dumond

Aging with HIV across the Gender Spectrum

​Speakers include: Denise Russo, Peter Hunt, Tonia Poteat, Jordan Lake

Agenda
Check out our agenda here or attached!
Registration
Registration for the 2023 Inter-CFAR Women and HIV Symposium is open. There will be no registration fee.
Register Here through 11/27!
Hotel
We have arranged a room block at the newly remodeled Holiday Inn Golden Gateway from December 5th through 7th, at a rate of $135/night. We will arrange shuttle transport to the meeting venue from the hotel. Reservations can be made here: CFAR Meeting (More details on the website).
Questions can be sent to Lauren Sterling (lauren.sterling@ucsf.edu). This meeting is supported in part by grant R13HD113489 with funding from U.S. National Institutes of Health institutes: NICHD, NIAID, and NIDDK.

2023 Inter-CFAR Women and HIV Symposium Women and HIV across the Lifespan
2023-12-06 - 2023-12-07 | 1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA
December 6-7, 2023 Mission Bay Conference Center, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA
The goal of the Inter-CFAR Women and HIV Symposium is to identify gaps in knowledge in HIV and women’s research and develop strategies that will move the field forward. In order to accomplish this goal, we aim to generate collaborative activity between CFARs and other research networks, highlighting cutting-edge science and promoting opportunities for early career investigators.
The Symposium will feature three sessions on the following topics:

Reproductive Health, in particular the US Perinatal Guidelines on Breastfeeding with HIV: From Policy to Practice
Antiretroviral Therapy and Metabolism in the Era of INSTIs: Sex and Gender Differences
Aging with HIV across the Gender Spectrum

Registration for the 2023 Inter-CFAR Women and HIV Symposium will open in September (sign up on our Membership Form to make sure to receive communications). There will be no registration fee.
ABSTRACTS DUE Monday, September 18, 2023 11:59pm Pacific
The planning committee solicits abstracts for posters and oral presentations related to all areas of HIV among women including prevention, treatment, and cure. Abstracts may be submitted by investigators of any level.
Abstracts will be considered for both oral and poster presentation, with 12 oral presentations to be competitively selected with special consideration to meritorious abstracts submitted by early-stage investigators (pre-doctoral students through Assistant Professors) and investigators from groups historically underrepresented in the U.S. research enterprise, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, and individuals with disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Abstracts must be no more than 350 words in length. Review criteria include overall impact, contribution to the field of HIV in women, and responsiveness to NIH Office of AIDS Research Priorities. Full travel scholarships will be awarded to oral presenters, and partial travel scholarships will be awarded to poster presenters.
Submit your abstract here: http://depts.washington.edu/hivwomen/2023symposium/callforabstracts
Questions can be directed to Lauren Sterling (lauren.sterling@ucsf.edu).

Clinical Discovery Seminar
2024-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
“uTECH- Machine Learning for HIV Prevention Among Substance Using GBMSM”
Speaker: Ian Holloway, PhD, LCSW
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 11:00 am-12:00 pm PST

HIV Grand Rounds: Dr. Christopher W. Peterson
2024-02-13 11:00 - 12:00 | CHS 13-105, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Christopher William Peterson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
“Bridging the Gap: Cell and Gene Therapies for Latent HIV Infection and Other Low-Antigen Diseases”
Over the past decade, Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells have emerged as a potent therapy for B cell malignancies. Applying analogous antigen-specific approaches for diseases such as antiretroviral therapy (ART)-suppressed HIV-1 infection poses additional challenges. This presentation will outline our efforts to deliver supplemental antigen and enhance the potency of anti-HIV cell and gene therapies.

HIV GR-Joseph Matovu, MHS, PhD
2024-03-19 11:00 - 12:00 | CHS 13-105, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
Dr. Joseph Matovu
Senior Research Associate at Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
Assoc. Professor at Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda
“Social network-based, peer-led HIV self-testing as a strategy to improve HIV testing uptake and linkage to HIV care among men in fishing community settings: experiences from Uganda”

3rd National Ending the HIV Epidemic Partnerships for Research Meeting
2024-04-15 - 2024-04-16 | CA
The 3rd National Ending the HIV Epidemic Partnerships for Research Meeting hosted by UCLA CHIPTS and the UCLA-CDU Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) will take place on April 15-16, 2024, in-person at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. This meeting will convene the CFAR/ARC Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) supplement project teams funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and community and public health partners to share project findings and explore opportunities to advance high-impact HIV implementation research.
The 2024 meeting theme is: “Accelerating Innovations for Equitable Reach and Uptake of HIV Services.” Grounded in this theme, the meeting aims to:

Facilitate the dissemination of innovative implementation strategies and generalizable findings from the EHE supplement projects.
Promote best practices for research-community partnerships in HIV implementation research.
Offer opportunities for networking and exploring new collaborations to accelerate progress towards ending the HIV epidemic.

Registration is free and required for attendance. Scholarships are available to help cover the cost of airfare and/or hotel accommodations.

CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) - Update and Opportunities
2024-04-22 12:30 - 13:30 | CA
We would like to invite you to attend our next CFAR- Wide Webinar, featuring Dr. Michael Saag with UAB CFAR.
Title: CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) – Update and Opportunities
Date : Monday, April 22nd, @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm EST
Registration is required for this event, please see the zoom registration link here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcO2rpzMtH9znjNno6djqww7dWiDtnDCE

Training Workshop, “Preventing and Detecting Fraud in Online Surveys”, presented by Elizabeth Wu, MPH
2024-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
UCLA-CDU CFAR Clinical Science Core Training Workshop
“Preventing and Detecting Fraud in Online Surveys”
presented by Elizabeth Wu, MPH
VIRTUAL MEETING
APRIL 25, 2024 @ 12:00pm
RSVP REQUIRED: PLEASE CLICK HERE

Clinical Science Core presents UCLA-CDU CFAR Open House (ZOOM)
2024-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Are you conducting HIV-related research with human participants, samples, or data? Join our Open House to find out how the UCLA-CDU CFAR can help you! The Mission of the UCLA-CDU CFAR is to stop HIV in Los Angeles County and beyond through engaging diverse researchers with multi-disciplinary perspectives. It seeks to support investigators at all stages of the research process. This Open House will highlight the services and resources provided by Cores below.

Administrative Core
Centralized Laboratory Support Core
Developmental Core
Community Engagement and Clinical Informatics Core
Clinical Science Core

REGISTER TODAY!!

REGISTER TODAY! UCLA-CDU CFAR 1st Annual AIDS Scientific Symposium
2024-05-06 08:00 - 14:00 | MLK Behavioral Health Center, 12021 Wilmington Avenue, BLDG 18, Los Angeles, 90059, United States
Monday May 6, 2024 8am to 2pm
MLK Behavioral Health Center
12021 Wilmington Avenue, Building 18 Los Angeles, CA 90059
Unlocking Innovation: Exploring CFAR’s Funding Opportunities and Services.
Introduction and spotlight on the UCLA-CDU Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) program, with an emphasis on the array of funding opportunities and support services.

“Introduction to Implementation Science- Session 1 of 3” on May 30, 2024
2024-05-30 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
“Introduction to Implementation Science”.
Co-sponsored by the NYU Global Center for Implementation Science (GCIS).

Accepting Applications! CHIPTS HIV Global Public Health Travel Fellowship
2024-08-30 | CA

"Introduction to Implementation Science- Session 2 of 3
2024-09-05 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Introduction to Implementation Science (Implementation Science Workshop Series Session 2), Co-Hosted by the UCLA-CDU CFAR Clinical Science Core and NYU GCIS

Selecting implementation strategies and applying hybrid effectiveness-implementation study designs

HIV GR: Dr. Sunil Solomon
2024-09-10 11:00 - 12:00 | CHS 13-105, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
“A Two Decade Journey with People who Inject Drugs:
Lessons from Back to the Future”
Sunil Suhas Solomon, MBBS, PhD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 @ 11:00am-12:00pm (PT)

2024 Pilot Project LOI DUE- CYCLE 2
2024-09-13 | CA
Maximum request per application: $60,000 Direct Costs
Deadline for receipt of Letters of Intent: September 13, 2024
Applicants whose letters of intent are favorably reviewed will be invited to submit a formal proposal.
Formal proposals will then be due by November 15, 2024.
Earliest start date of February 1, 2025.

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Summer Institute
2024-09-24 08:00 - 15:00 | MLK Behavioral Health Center, 12021 Wilmington Avenue, BLDG 18, Los Angeles, 90059, United States
A free, annual, in-person Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Summer Institute at Charles R. Drew University.

Summer Institute topics include CBPR principles, methodologies and best practices, combined with essential topics in HIV prevention and treatment research.
Knowledge and skills gained from this Institute will enable participants to establish equitable partnerships with CBOs, develop CBPR strategies, and write and submit innovative proposals that include CBPR methodologies. The next session will be held on September 24, 2024.

For more information, please contact Andrea Jones at AndreaJones@cdrewu.edu.

HIV GR: Dr. Ellen Eaton
2024-11-12 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 154, 615 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

UCLA CTSI Research Recruitment Services and Tools, presented by Antonia Petruse
2025-01-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-29 | CA

"Introduction to Implementation Science- Session 3 of 3"
2025-02-06 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Introduction to Implementation Science (Implementation Science Workshop Series Session 3), Co-Hosted by the UCLA-CDU CFAR Clinical Science Core and NYU GCIS
Adapting interventions and strategies in global context, NIH Dissemination and Implementation priorities, and identifying funding.

2025 Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-08 | Hyatt Palm Springs, 285 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA, 92262, United States

HIV Grand Rounds: 03/18/2025 : Dr. Henry Fomundam
2025-03-18 11:00 - 12:00 | CHS 13-105, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
“An Innovative intervention for Sustainable HIV/ AIDS Epidemic control in Zambia, in a quest to end the pandemic in Africa by 2030.”
Dr Henry Fomundam
Associate Professor, Howard University
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
11:00am-12:00pm

HIV GR: Dr. Jonathan Li
2025-04-08 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 154, 615 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
“HIV Post-Treatment Controllers and the Dream of Living without Antiretroviral Therapy”
Jonathan Li, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
April 8, 2025
11:00am-12:00pm
BSRB 154

Harnessing the Power of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data: Design, Implementation, and Insights From a Case Study on Universal Tobacco and Cannabis Screening in Primary Care
2025-04-17 | CA

2nd Annual CFAR Symposium
2025-05-01 09:00 - 15:00 | UCLA FACULTY CLUB, 480 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The 2nd Annual CFAR Symposium on HIV/AIDS will be on Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. This annual symposium is organized by the UCLA-CDU CFAR and UCLA CHIPTS. The aim of this symposium is to provide cutting-edge research presentations, posters, and networking opportunities with leading experts in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
The conference is scheduled for Thursday, May 1st, 2025 at the UCLA Faculty Club from 9:00am-3:00pm (PST). More information to come soon!

HIV GR: Katharine J. Bar, MD
2025-09-18 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 154, 615 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
We hope this message finds you well! The UCLA-CDU CFAR, UCLA CHIPTS, and the UCLA AIDS Institute are excited to welcome you back for the 2025–2026 HIV Grand Rounds seminar series. We look forward to another year of engaging discussions, cutting-edge science, and collaboration.

The HIV Grand Rounds series consists of hour-long lunchtime lectures delivered by invited guests or distinguished UCLA faculty on a broad range of HIV-related topics. The series aims to:

Share the latest research findings on HIV prevention, care, and treatment, and highlight important developments in HIV-related research.

Encourage scientific collaborations and networking between UCLA investigators and invited speakers.

Inspire early career investigators in HIV/AIDS research by providing resources on new findings, funding opportunities, and career development.

We are delighted to begin the 2025–2026 series with:

Dr. Katharine J. Bar
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania,
Penn CFAR

Thursday, September 18, 2025
11:00am-12:00pm

“HIV-specific antibody responses after early ART initiation: obstacles and opportunities”

THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING.
Virtual Information:
Once you REGISTER, you will be e-mailed a Zoom Link

In-person Details:
REGISTER HERE
Venue: BSRB 154 (UCLA)
To help us plan accordingly with food and drinks, please be sure to register.

AIM SWG Community Meeting
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | CA

Clinical Discovery Seminar: “Studying Cardiovascular Risk and Outcomes among PWH in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems Cohort (CNICS),” features Dr. Matt Durstenfeld, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology.
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
