Displaying items by tag: Center for Aids Research

The UAB Department of Microbiology and the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) hosted the inaugural HIV Basic and Translational Research Symposium Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, at the UAB Hilton Hotel. The all-day event featured speakers from the university and Southern Research, time for discussion, and a poster session.  

As the Heersink School of Medicine grows, the leadership has defined four new research focus areas to grow over the next five to seven years. This part explores the next focus area, I-4ward.

A new program of AIDS Alabama, the Way Station, is working to fill longstanding and critical gaps in the Birmingham community by offering a shelter for homeless youth ages 18-24. Three adolescent medicine experts weigh in on the preventive nature of the new shelter.

Local organizations fighting to end the spread of AIDS by 2030 will be a focal point at UAB’s World AIDS Day celebration.
This structure will further explain how the virus infects human cells and how progeny viruses are assembled, and it may be a point of attack to disarm the virus.
Leaders in HIV research and treatment gather at UAB to address laws that prohibit gay men from donating blood.
Registration open for health care summit focused on integrating HIV prevention into primary care.
Page 1 of 2