Barton Haynes, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, has learned that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is awarding up to $139 million dollars over the next seven years for the Duke Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology-Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID).
Dr. Haynes previously led the original Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, the grant for which just ended in June 2012. He will be director of CHAVI-ID, a highly focused program to discover how to induce the precise immune factors needed for effective vaccines against HIV.
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