The HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center is dedicated to meet the worldwide challenge of HIV, with the goal of moving beyond current life-long treatments and eradicating the virus. The Center marshals world-class scientific talent, research expertise, and community support to bring together the very best in bench-to-bedside biomedical research to discover a cure for HIV — and, possibly, other viral threats as well.
The Wistar Institute’s HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center is home to one of the most scientifically productive HIV research programs in the nation, and scientists at the Center follow three concurrent aims:
- integrate multi-pronged clinical, virus-fighting methods that mimic and enhance the natural strengths of the human immune system;
- advance successes in personalized medicine to create tailored cure strategies for individual patients and patient groups;
- expand collaborations and capacity-building to ensure cure-directed efforts include researchers and persons living with HIV around the world.
Wistar HIV researchers are part of the Penn CFAR (Center for AIDS Research), one of 19 NIH-funded HIV research centers located at academic and research institutions throughout the United States. The Penn CFAR facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations among basic and clinical HIV and AIDS investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and The Wistar Institute.
The Wistar HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center leads the NIH-funded Martin Delaney Collaboratory Program, BEAT-HIV, focused on advancing the HIV cure agenda through both basic and clinical studies. The collaborative team includes more than 85 members worldwide from academia and industry.
The Wistar HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center engages in partnerships with our local HIV community to offer participation in research studies and education on the latest Wistar research to persons living with HIV/AIDS.
