Research Story Tip: Grants, Management Roles Keep Johns Hopkins A Leader In Hiv/Aids Clinical Trial

Date: 12/08/2020

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hopkinsmedicine.org

This World AIDS Day, HIV/AIDS researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine learned that they now have an enhanced opportunity to help move the world toward a day when that observance is rendered obsolete. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced Dec. 1, 2020, that Johns Hopkins Medicine will receive five of the seven-year grants awarded to 35 U.S. and international institutions to operate clinical trial units (CTUs) and coordinate HIV/AIDS clinical trials in four federally funded networks.

The three CTU grants and two leadership awards for Johns Hopkins Medicine are the most given to any one institution.

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