Cohort 5 Scholars
SUNY Downstate College
of Medicine
HVTN Site: New York Blood Center
Mentors: Hong Van Tieu, Beryl Koblin, Michele Andrasik
Project Title: “Assessing Patient Experience with Intravenous and Subcutaneous Monoclonal Antibody Vaccinations for Prevention of HIV Infections”
Texas A&M College of
Medicine
HVTN Site: University of Rochester
Mentor: James Kobie
Project Title: “Impact of Injection Drug Use on B Cell Function”
University of Tennessee
Health Science Center
HVTN Site: Vanderbilt University
Mentor: Spyros Kalams
Project Title: “Quantitating the Frequency of HIV-specific Public TCR Clonotypes in HIV Infected Individuals and HIV Negative Vaccine Recipients”
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and
Dentistry
HVTN Site: Setshaba Research Centre
Mentors: Mookho Malahlela, Mike Keefer
Project Title: “Community Understanding(s) of HIV Vaccine Reach and Vaccine-Induced Seropositivity”
Stony Brook University
School of Medicine
HVTN Site: Columbia University/NY Blood Center
Mentors: Magda Sobieczszyk, Hong Van Tieu
Project Title: “Understanding the barriers and successful strategies that the facilitate participation of transmen in preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials: A focus on community awareness, accurate information dissemination, and transmasculine health”
University of Illinois College
of Medicine
Albert Einstein School of
Medicine
HVTN Site: Columbia University/NY Blood Center
Mentors: Magda Sobieczszyk, Beryl Koblin
Project Title: “HVTN 505: Relationship between PrEP and vaccine prevention”
University of South
Carolina at Greenville
HVTN Site: Bridge HIV / San Francisco
Mentors: Hyman Scott, Michele Andrasik
Project Title: ”Evaluating the use of social media for engaging young African American and Latino men who have sex with men in HIV prevention research”
Ohio State University
College of Medicine