Collaborative Projects

Institute faculty collaborate with one another across departments and institutions. Below please find a listing of collaborative research projects...

GW RESEARCH ENHANCEMENTS FUNDS

GW Research Enhancement Fund provides grants to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty across departments and schools, where such activity may lead to the development of a new center or institute that has the potential to attract significant external funding. Below are examples of REF grants received by the GW HIV/AIDS Institute along with Institute members.

The GW HIV/AIDS Institute received a Research Enhancement Fund grant in 2008 from the university to establish the HIV/AIDS Institute Biospecimen Resource (HIV/AIDS IBR), which will operate under the National Cancer Institute's Best Practices to support HIV-related translational research. The HIV/AIDS IBR will enable Institute members to have a less expensive and more convenient way to store specimens, decreasing costs that they typically have to write into research proposal budgets. It will also provide an incentive for Institute members to begin collecting specimens from their respective cohorts and clinics if space is readily available. Dr. Sylvia Silver is the PI for this project, and we are indebted to her leadership in putting the proposal together.

Additionally, two other REF grants were received in 2008 by Institute members. Drs. Maria Cecilia Zea (PI) and Paul Poppen (Co-Investigator), along with two other colleagues from the Department of Psychology at GW, received a grant, entitled "Latino Health Research Collaboration." Their project will seek to increase the understanding of the complex and multiple factors that affect health behaviors, and specifically sexual risk behavior, among Latinos in the U.S. and abroad, and other ethnic minority groups in the U.S. It will also advance research concerning health behavior and health disparities by elaborating the role and importance of the cultural, situational, and structural context, as well as the relevant characteristics of the individual person.

Through the W. M. Keck Institute for Proteomics Technology and Applications (KIPTA), Dr. Fatah Kashanchi received a grant, entitled "Metabolism and Lipid Bilayers in an Infected Cell." This project will look at HIV-1 infected cells membrane proteome and any possible therapeutic applications.

Institute Member Collaborative Projects

Project Title: Improved access to HIV screening

Collaborators: Drs. Jeremy Brown (GWU SMHS, Emergency Department), Gary Simon (GWU SMHS, Division of Infectious Disease), Manya Magnus (GWU SPHHS, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Irene Kuo (GWU SPHHS, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics).

Brown J, Shesser R, Simon G, Bahn M, Czarnogorski M,; Kuo I, Magnus M, Sikka N. Routine HIV Screening in the Emergency Department Using the New US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines - Results From a High-Prevalence Area. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. December 2007; 46(4):395-401.

Brown J, Shesser R, and Simon G. Establishing an ED HIV Screening Program: Lessons from the Front Lines. July 2007. Academic Emergency Medicine. 14 (7): 658-661.

Project Title: Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

Collaborators: Drs. Sylvia Silver (GWU SMHS, Department of Health Sciences), Jan Orenstein (GWU SMHS, Department of Pathology, and Mary Young (Georgetown University, Department of Medicine).

Project Title: World Health Organization Task Shifting

Collaborators: Drs. Alan Greenberg (GWU SPHHS, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and John Palen (GWU SPHHS, Department of Health Policy).

Project Title: GWU Yes Center (SPNS)

Collaborators: Drs. Manya Magnus (GWU SPHHS, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Julia Hidalgo (GWU SPHHS, Department of Health Policy).

Project Title: Effect of HIV-1 matrix inhibitors in new humanized mouse model

Collaborators: Drs. Fatah Kashanchi (GWU SMHS, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Michael Burkinsky (GWU SMHS, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine).

Project Title: Interactome of the HIV-1 VPR protein and its regulation of G2/M and chromatin structure

Collaborators: Drs. Fatah Kashanchi (GWU SMHS, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Steven Zeichner (GWU SMHS, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine ).

Project Title: Effect of cdk kinase inhibitors on HIV-1 replication

Colalborators: Drs. Fatah Kashanchi (GWU SMHS, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Sergie Nekhai (Howard University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).