Miriam Hospital gets $3.6M to train HIV/AIDS researchers abroad for 5 years

PROVIDENCE – The National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center has awarded $3.6 million over five years to an international AIDS training and research program based at The Miriam Hospital to keep training researchers in countries most affected by HIV/AIDS.
The program, started in 1993, is operated jointly by the hospital, Brown University and Tufts University. It is part of the international training arm of the NIH’s HIV research effort, which trains and mentors scientists in developing countries to address the AIDS epidemic primarily through prevention research, combining biomedical and behavioral interventions.
The Miriam-based program supports training programs in India, Cambodia, the Philippines and Kenya. A new pilot training program is also being planned in Ghana.
In addition, the program will focus on long-term, intensive training tracks to help researchers obtain advanced degrees at Brown and Tufts and take post-doctoral courses in areas such as molecular virology, HIV-prevention research and pharmacology. •