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2007 Developmental Pilot Grant Award Recipients:
2008 Developmental Pilot Grant Award Recipients:
2009 Neuro-AIDS Pilot
Grant Announcement
The Johns Hopkins University NIMH Center for Novel Therapeutics of HIV- associated Cognitive Disorders, located in the Department of Neurology, has announced the upcoming 2009 Developmental Pilot Grant Awards for Innovative Neuro-AIDS projects. The grant awards are particularly designed to stimulate new projects and encourage new investigators to generate data that would be used for future grant applications. Faculty members of any rank are encouraged to apply, and collaborations with other academic institutions or international sites are allowable. The Center will award 2-4 pilot grants of $25,000 to $45,000 in direct costs for a one year period. Letters of Intent, a required first part of a two stages process are due by October 10, 2008. For additional information and supporting documents, CLICK HERE.
For additional information please contact Carol at cscott28@jhmi.edu or by telephone at 410-955-0956.
Development Core
Director:
Amanda Brown, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neurology
Co-Director:
Justin McArthur, MBBS, MPH
Professor of Neurology, Pathology and Epidemiology

Goals and Objectives
The Developmental Core was designed to accomplish the following goals and objectives:
  1. To promote innovative, high-risk, high-impact Neuro-AIDS research, especially focusing on therapeutic development.
  2. To promote cross-disciplinary collaborations, especially new kinds of collaborations.
  3. To encourage participation of young and established investigators who are new to the field of NeuroAIDS.
  4. To generate data and publications that can be used to apply for NIH and other peer funding.
Funding for research in HIV-associated neurological disease at Johns Hopkins is substantial, spanning all aspects of Neuro-AIDS research, from behavioral interventions to molecular biology, pathogenesis and therapeutics. Despite the wealth of research and peer-reviewed NIH funding for studies of Neuro-AIDS, JHU investigators need a mechanism by which they can to pursue high-risk questions, develop new collaborations, and pursue new areas of research that would lead to independent funding. This is especially relevant for therapeutically oriented research.

In recent years, the JHU CFAR has provided pilot or developmental grants, but these are not solely focused on Neuro-AIDS; rather they are distributed across all content areas. Over the 5 years of CFAR pilots there have been 50 awards. Of these 8 (16%) were awarded to investigators studying HIV CNS disease. The CFAR model is, however, recognized as having been a very valuable and productive component of the CFAR’s success, and we aim to emulate it in this Core. In addition, we anticipate that this Core will provide pilot grants to investigators outside of JHU (who may have collaborations with JHU researchers), thus encouraging the entry of new investigators with new ideas into the field. This Developmental Core will provide critical seed money for such endeavors, and will thereby enhance the activities of the Center overall.



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