Upcoming Events

Thursday, February 09, 2012
David Olsen, PhD, Senior Director and Basic Site Lead, Infectious Disease, Worldwide External Discovery and Preclinical Sciences, MRL/Merck
Location: TBA
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

 "HCV Drug Discovery: Models and Opportunities"

A special joint seminar sponsored by the Institute for Drug Resistance, the Center for AIDS Research, and the Department of Medicine
Hosted by Celia Schiffer, PhD, Director of IDR and CFAR, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and
Robert Finberg, MD, Richard M. Haidack Professor of Medicine, Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Chair, Department of Medicine

Monday, February 13, 2012
CFAR Postdoctoral Research Network Meeting
Location: Two Biotech, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
Time: 12:00 AM-1:00 PM

Elizabeth Stansell, Ph.D. from Ron Desrosiers's Lab at New England Primate Center: 
"A Newly-Discovered, Essential Rose for O-linked Carbohydrate across Multiple Families of Enveloped Viruses" 

Hosted by Maria Jose Duenas Decamp, PhD from Molecular Medicine, this network will offer scientific and resource sharing to support the development of new investigators in HIV research areas.
Lunch will be served.    Please rsvp to mariajose.duenasdecamp@umassmed.edu or call her 508-856-8397.

Friday, February 24, 2012
HIV Replication and Host Factors Working Group, Lawrence Stern, Ph.D. "Nef-TCR Interactions"
Location: LRB 816, Aaron Lazare Research Building
Time: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

 CFAR Working Group on HIV Replication and Host Factors, chaired by Paul Clapham, PhD and Heinrich Gottlinger, PhD

Lunch will be served.

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ELISPOT-β galactosidase readout assay to quantify HIV titers and neutralizing antibody titers

 

 UMMS Experts Mark World AIDS Day

UMass CFAR Researcher Shan Lu receives Gates Foundation Funding for HIV Vaccine Development

International AIDS Researcher Jeremy Luban Joins UMass 

Message from the Dean

Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor in Medical Education, Executive Deputy Chancellor, Provost & Dean, School of Medicine

Appointment of Celia Schiffer, PhD, as Director of the Center for AIDS Research

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I am pleased to announce Celia A. Schiffer, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, has been appointed as the new director of the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, one of 20 CFARs in the United States and part of an important national network of core facilities that provide expertise, resources, and services not otherwise readily obtained through more traditional funding mechanisms...Read More.