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The Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) program at the National Institutes of Health provides administrative and shared research support to synergistically enhance and coordinate high quality AIDS research projects. CFARs accomplish this through core facilities that provide expertise, resources, and services not otherwise readily obtained through more traditional funding mechanisms. This program was originally begun by the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1988. Through a 2003 program announcement, CFARs are now co-funded by six NIH Institutes: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse, (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)." The CFAR program is scientifically managed by these six NIH Institutes as well as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), the Office of AIDS Research (OAR), and the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health. The CFAR program emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, especially between basic and clinical investigators, translational research in which findings from the laboratory are brought to the clinic and vice versa, and an emphasis upon inclusion of minorities and inclusion of prevention and behavioral change research. There are 20 CFARs located at academic and research institutions throughout the U.S. (see map). Please use the links provided in the frame to the left, or at the end of this page, to learn more about the CFAR program and individual centers.
This page is in progress and any comments or suggestions are most welcome. Please forward to nguyencd@niaid.nih.gov. Last updated January 12, 2009 (alt) |