amfAR – The Foundation for AIDS Research: Target Grants – 500 words Synopsis

Aimed at finding a cure for HIV, to uncover vital knowledge directly applicable to clinical or pre-clinical cure efforts. Persistent reservoirs of virus not cleared by antiretroviral therapy represent the main barrier to a cure. amfAR’s Target Grants should focus on pushing the boundaries of biomedical research to achieve sustained HIV remission or complete viral eradication. Priority will be given to clinical or pre-clinical applications studying pragmatic and scalable interventions that can be implemented globally. The research must be conducted and validated either in vivo (in PLWH, non-human primates, or humanized mice), or ex vivo (in cells isolated from PLWH or infected animals). Interventions tested exclusively in cell lines or in primary cells from HIV-negative individuals will not be considered responsive to this RFP.
At this stage, a short, pre-proposal (synopsis) is requested and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application.
Funding: $480K over two years
www.amfar.org/research/target-grants-request-for-proposals