Next Generation Training in HIV Research: Immunity in the First 1000 Days in Mother-infant Dyads (TIGRIS)
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Funding Fogarty Program
Fogarty HIV Research Training
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Next Generation Training in HIV Research: Immunity in the First 1000 Days in Mother-infant Dyads (TIGRIS)
Principal Institution
Stellenbosch University Tygerberg Campus
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Gray, Clive Maurice; Chakraborty, Rana
Project Contact Information
Email:
cgray@sun.ac.za
Year(s) Awarded
2022–2024
Country
Benin; Cameroon; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; Gabon
Collaborators
Stellenbosch University in South Africa
Morehouse School of Medicine
Stanford University
Duke University
Weill Cornell Medical College
University of Cincinnati and Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
Project Description
This program will plan a multidisciplinary, international and pan-African HIV research training program: NexT generation traininG in HIV Research: Immunity in the First 1000 days in mother-infant dyadS” (TIGRIS). The program will focus on investigating how HIV infection in the pregnant woman leads to adverse birth outcomes and neonatal immune dysfunction and using this to build a didactic and laboratory-based training to enhance HIV scientific capacity in Africa.
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