The International AIDS Society (IAS), in partnership with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH-supported Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR), launched a new round of the joint research grant programme, Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR).

The CNIHR programme supports projects intended to advance the scientific understanding of HIV by exploring new approaches to pressing scientific questions on such issues as the long-term survival of individuals with HIV infection, mechanisms behind establishment of viral reservoirs, new approaches for the prevention of HIV transmission, and innovative models of health care delivery. It is designed to promote innovative research and new ideas from early-stage investigators whose primary focus has previously been in fields of scientific inquiry other than HIV/AIDS. It aims at recruiting and training tomorrow’s leading HIV researchers from across many areas of science, whose work will benefit not only HIV, but other fields of research as well.

The first step of the competitive application process is open on the CNIHR website (www.cnihr.org) and will close on 17 October 2011. Applicants will be asked to complete a two-step process to assess the quality of their research projects. Awardees will be selected by mid-April 2012.

Successful applicants will be invited to the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), in Washington D.C. 22-27 July 2012, where they will be officially awarded. They will also have the opportunity to attend an HIV orientation seminar with leading experts and take part in a networking session during the conference.

For more information about this programme:
CNIHR 2012 Round Announcement
CNIHR grant website: www.cnihr.org

Information on 2010 awardees: www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=381

Contact: info@cnihr.org

Representatives of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) present on the potential opportunities for joint biomedical and behavioral research. All of the NIH grants are awarded through a peer-review competitive system, and are open to U.S. and non-U.S. scientists. Collaborations between U.S. and foreign researchers are strongly encouraged. Specific areas where grant applications for joint projects with Russian researchers are encouraged include but are not limited to the studies of alcohol dependence and biomarkers, fetal alcohol syndrome, computational biology and neuroscience, cardiovascular, lung and blood diseases.
Detailed information about areas of basic research conducted by NIH institutes could be found on the following web-sites:
NICHD – http://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/org/supported_by.cfm
NINDS – http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/areas/
NIAAA – http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ResearchInformati...es/default.aspx
NHLBI – http://dir.nhlbi.nih.gov/index1.asp?
FIC – http://www.fic.nih.gov/
To discuss opportunities of collaboration in the areas of mutual interest, please contact the representative of NIH Institutes with your project proposal:
NICHD – Daniel Singer, Office of the Director, e-mail: singerda@mail.nih.gov
NINDS – Yuan Liu, Chief, Office of International Activities, e-mail: liuyuan@ninds.nih.gov
NIAAA – Peggy Murray, Senior Advisor, Office of the Director, e-mail: pmurray@mail.nih.gov
NHLBI – Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, Deputy Director of the Office of Global Health, e-mail: rabadanc@nhlbi.nih.gov
FIC – Marya Levintova, International Health Officer for Russia, Eurasia, and Arctic Affairs, Division of International Relations, e-mail: levintovam@mail.nih.gov