Third Coast Center for AIDS Research

Upcoming webinar. Using RADD Technical Services to Enhance Research Projects. Thursday, October 23, 2025. 12 - 1pm CT. Rana Saber, RADD Director. Third Coast Center for AIDS Research.

Technical services research support is available to CFAR members through Northwestern's RADD Core Center.

Learn how they can work with you on participant engagement tools, social media recruitment, web design, and more at our October 23 webinar.

Register: www.thirdcoastcfar.org/calendar_eve...

Check out the upcoming @fsmglobalhealth.bsky.social seminar featuring Third Coast CFAR member Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo! She will discuss the current state of pediatric HIV prevention and care.

Learn more and register to attend ⤵️

24 Hours to Save AIDS Research September 16 saveaidsresearch.org

Join the last hour of the 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research livestream to learn about HIV/STI prevention in youth populations from Third Coast CFAR member Julia Rosebush!

Watch live on YouTube: bit.ly/46jVB28

#HIV #HIVresearch #24hourstosaveaidsresear

Today is the day! Join us for 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research starting at 11 am ET. You can still register bit.ly/45U1keO and join us on YouTube bit.ly/45Qftts. See you there! #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch

📢The Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) invites abstracts for the supplement, “Application and Innovation in Implementation Science Methods for HIV Prevention."

Abstract submission deadline is 5/31/25

More info and submit an abstract: bit.ly/43a8A64

The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases @fsmglobalhealth.bsky.social (C-THAN) is seeking proposals on collaborative #HIV research projects.

Learn more and apply by June 6: bit.ly/3GlngGK

TODAY at 12pm CT: Jennifer Jao, MD, and Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, DO, will present on the updated HHS guidelines, “Infant Feeding for Individuals With HIV in the United States,” in a TC CFAR seminar. @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social
@luriechildrens.bsky.social

Join on Zoom. Registration: bit.ly/4lGG4At

Northwestern Feinberg ID Grand Rounds: Pursuit of HIV Cure from a Pediatrician's Perspective with Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD, at Emory School of Medicine.

🗓️May 29
⏰12 - 1PM
📍Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women's Hospital

Register: bit.ly/IDGR

🚨 New JAIDS supplemental issue out now!

This supplemental issue published in coordination with @hivimpsci.bsky.social examines 120 NIH-funded projects aimed at ending the #HIV epidemic. Authors include Third Coast CFAR faculty members.

Read it now ➡️ tinyurl.com/4jb2fmbt

JAIDS supplemental issue now published: “State of US HIV Implementation Science: Progress and Priorities to End the Epidemic by 2030." Volume 98, supplement 5. HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative.

🚨 New JAIDS supplemental issue published today!

Coordinated by ISCI, this supplemental issue examines 120 NIH-funded projects aimed at ending the #HIV epidemic, sharing key findings and highlighting strategies for success.

Read it now: tinyurl.com/4jb2fmbt

The TC CFAR’s new Slowing Aging Across the Lifespan for Persons with HIV Scientific Working Group aims to advance research that helps people with HIV undergo healthy aging by collaborating with long-term HIV survivors in Chicago to define community needs.

Find out more and join: bit.ly/4ldgcMb

Are you a Chicago faculty or community member, trainee or student who is interested in disseminating #HIV or HIV-related research? Join our new HIV Dissemination Science and Practice Scientific Working Group!

Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/3DIWozz

Our April 28 seminar at 12pm CT features Jennifer Jao, MD, and Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, DO, @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social and @luriechildrens.bsky.social! They will present on the updated HHS guidelines, “Infant Feeding for Individuals With HIV in the United States.”

Register: bit.ly/424n9q0

🎉Congratulations to TC CFAR members who presented their latest HIV research at #CROI2025!

View the presentations: bit.ly/41TkVJU

👏TC CFAR early career investigator Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD,
presented his HIV digital intervention research at the CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network (SBSRN) 2025 meeting. His research project was funded by a TC CFAR pilot award.

Read more: bit.ly/3FuV4AM

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research, or Third Coast CFAR, seeks to catalyze cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary HIV research collaborations with a broad scope and major impact on the HIV epidemic in Chicago.

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