Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
The Case Western Reserve University/ Case Medical Center University Hospitals For AIDS Research
was established by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1994.
The Center was refunded after another successful competitive application for
an additional five years, beginning April 1, 1998.
Located in Cleveland, Ohio, CWRU/UH CFAR is one of nineteen Centers for AIDS
Research throughout t the U.S. funded by the NIH.
The broad goal of the CFAR
is to coordinate its clinical and basic research activities through the provision
of core support facilities, developmental grant awards, support of seminar series
and symposia, and community-based education programs.
There are more than 100
CFAR members from the community, at CWRU, University Hospitals of Cleveland,
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, MetroHealth Medical Center, and Ohio State
University, working in areas of research including mycobacterial research, molecular
and clinical virology, HIV immunology, clinical treatment trials, epidemiology,
biomedical ethics, vaccine research, and international aspects of AIDS.. |
