Please join the CFAR Co-Directors, Ann Chahroudi, Carlos del Rio, and Colleen Kelley, in congratulating newly named CFAR Core Directors and Associate Directors! They join Kimbi Hagen, Bob Lyles, Kirk Easley, Igho Ofotokun, Vince Marconi, Paul Johnson, John Altman, Hannah Cooper, Patrick Sullivan, Natalie Crawford, Aaron Siegler, Guido Silvestri, Vandy Vanderford, Colleen Kraft, and Maud Mavigner who continue as Core leaders.
The CFAR Leadership and Emeriti Directors evaluated candidates to select the leadership for the Cores, and they invite you to review the attached document that includes brief bios for each of them. These individuals were selected based on their outstanding contributions to HIV Science, leadership experience and potential, and commitment to mentoring and supporting the next generation of HIV researchers.
We are grateful to each of them for their commitment to the CFAR, and we look forward to working together to ensure that we meet the needs of CFAR Members and strive to achieve the CFAR mission: to contribute to ending the HIV epidemic by accelerating the highest caliber translational research — fostering team science, equity, and multidirectional stakeholder engagement.
Developmental Core
Rama Amara, PhD
Co‐Director, Developmental Core
Drenna Waldrop, PhD
Co‐Director, Developmental Core
Kimbi Hagen, EdD
Associate Director, Developmental Core
Clinical Research Core
Vincent Marconi, MD
Co‐Director, Clinical Research Core
Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc
Co-Director, Clinical Research Core
Andres Camacho‐Gonzalez, MD, MSc
Associate Director, Clinical Research Core
Anandi Sheth, MD, MSc
Associate Director, Clinical Research Core
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
Robert H. Lyles, PhD
Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
Kirk A. Easley, MS, MApStat
Associate Director, Biostatics and Bioinformatics Core
David Benkeser, PhD, MPH
Associate Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
Yijuan Hu, PhD
Associate Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Hannah Cooper, ScD
Co-Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD
Co-Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Natalie Crawford, MPH, PhD
Associate Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Jessica Sales, PhD, MA
Associate Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Aaron Siegler, PhD, MHS
Associate Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Systems Immunology Core
R. Paul Johnson, MD
Director, Systems Immunology Core
John Altman, PhD
Associate Director, System Immunology Core
Steven Bosinger, PhD
Associate Director, Systems Immunology Core
Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD
Associate Director, Systems Immunology Core
Virology & Molecular Biomarkers Core
Guido Silvestri, MD
Director, Virology and Molecular Biomarkers Core
Deanna Kulpa, PhD
Associate Director, Virology & Molecular Biomarkers Core
Thomas H. Vanderford, PhD
Director, Translational Virology Unit
Colleen S. Kraft, MD, MSc
Director, Clinical Virology Unit
Maud Mavigner, PhD
Director, Viral Reservoirs Unit
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