HIV researchers at UNC secure more funding
CHAPEL HILL – HIV/AIDS researchers based at UNC have landed another $23 million in funding, via a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The award to the Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication, CARE for short, was one of six the NIH announced earlier this month. The agency is committing about $30 million a year to the six groups.
Recipients are supposed to use the money to try developing a cure for HIV/AIDS, specifically by countering the way the virus can remain dormant in the body even after drug treatment has suppressed it.
The NIH is funding research groups pursuing a so-called “kick and kill” strategy, the idea being they need to find a way to first stimulate the virus and then reinforce the body’s immune system so it can get rid of it for good.
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