With growing talk of an HIV cure, the defeatHIV Community Advisory Board, along with the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research, and BABES Network-YWCA worked together to put on a “Community Q & A on HIV Cures” event April 2 with visiting scientist Robert Siliciano, a Professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world’s leading researchers on HIV.

Dear Global Health Faculty, Staff and Students,

The just-released School of Public Health 2013 Annual Report highlights many Department of Global Health collaborations across campus, such as the Human-Animal Medicine Project (Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH); the HOPE (home-based partner, education) project that tests mobile messaging for pregnant women in a Nairobi slum (Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, and Global WACh or Center for Woman, Adolescent, and Child Health); and the expansion of the START (Strategic Analysis, Research & Training) program (Lisa Manhart

University of Washington is part of a consortium led by Seattle Biomed to develop a vaccine that would elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. The $9.8m grant from NIH was announced March 10. Other members of the consortium include Seattle Children's Hospital and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Seattle Biomed Scientific Director Leonidas Stamatatos, PhD, an Affiliate Professor of Global Health will serve as program principal investigator, and will lead the initial phase of the project, which includes the optimization of immunogens.