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Featured Researchers

The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) is pleased to partner with the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR), the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) and the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI) Research and Development Alliance Coordinating Office (ACO), in the development of a series of HIV research outcome stories.

Over the coming year, a series of profiles of Canadian HIV researchers will be developed to highlight the excellent research that is taking place from coast to coast thanks to investments from these leading funders of Canadian HIV research.

This research is playing an important role in tackling the disease on all fronts - from insights into the biomedical roots of the disease, the development of advanced clinical approaches, greater understanding of the behaviors of those who are at risk, to a keener grasp of the multitude of social determinants that lie at the foundation of the decisions of individuals.

Please send your HIV/AIDS research success stories to: info@cahr-acrv.ca

Dr. Ciann Wilson

Connecting Indigenous and African Diasporic Communities
Assistant Professor at Wilfred Laurier University

Though at first glance, Indigenous and African diasporic communities in Canada are vastly different, there is a common thread that runs through their historic and contemporary experiences —colonization, oppression and ... Open Post

Dr. Charu Kaushic

HIV transmission and Inflammation of the Mucosal Layer

As Dr. Charu Kaushic investigated how female sex hormones and the menstrual cycle regulate the immune system during her post-doc, a nagging question kept returning. “I was looking at the ... Open Post

Dr. Ralph Pantophlet

The Flip Side
Simon Fraser University, BC

Dr. Ralph Pantophlet, from Simon Fraser University, has come to HIV research in a roundabout way. Travelling from his home in Aruba to the Netherlands, Germany, the US and now ... Open Post

Dr. Peter Newman

Where Social Science Meets Basic Science
University of Toronto

Dr. Peter A. Newman, Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, firmly believes in multidisciplinarity in HIV ... Open Post

Dr. Mark Brockman

From the Ground Up
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Mark Brockman, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, is a basic science researcher who specializes in viral pathogenicity of HIV and the human immune response ... Open Post

Dr. Marina Klein

Entering a New Era in HCV Treatment
McGill University

“What really drives me to be involved in both HIV and Hepatitis C work is the intersection between science and human behaviour, and how they impact one another. You can ... Open Post

Dr. Art Poon

Seeing the Forest for the Trees
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

“Learn to code. Seriously,” says Dr. Art Poon. It’s a recommendation he has for up-and-coming researchers, and it’s served him well in his own work. As a kid, he first ... Open Post

Dr. Mario Ostrowski

Immune System Intricacies

As a medical student at the height of the epidemic in the late 1980s, it wasn’t hard for Mario Ostrowski to choose a research career in HIV. “I did my ... Open Post

Dr. Curtis Cooper

University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

When Dr. Curtis Cooper started his research fellowship, he wanted to focus on an area of emerging research—treatment of patients co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV). “When I first ... Open Post

Dr. Darrell Tan

HIV Treatment in the Real World
Clinician Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto and Assistant Professor University of Toronto

As Dr. Darrell Tan puts it, it was a convergence of many roads that led him to a research career in HIV. As an undergraduate in microbiology and immunology at ... Open Post

Dr. Hugo Soudeyns

HIV and HCV in Mother and Child
Centre du Recherche du CHU Sainte- Justine

Dr. Hugo Soudeyns, Professor at Université de Montréal and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, has been involved with HIV research since the early years of its emergence. He has seen a ... Open Post

Dr. Catherine Worthington

Making Connections
School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria

As a graduate student in the early days of the HIV epidemic, Catherine Worthington was working in the field of mental health when she began to notice the similarities between ... Open Post

Dr. Éric Cohen

The Nuts and Bolts of Virus-Host Interactions
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and Université de Montréal

Dr. Éric Cohen, Canada Research Chair in Human Retrovirology and Professor at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and at Université de Montréal, digs right down to the basic ... Open Post

Dr. Soo Chan Carusone

Complex Lives and HIV Research
Research Lead, Casey House, Toronto

As we learn more about the impact of HIV on the lives of those living with it, it becomes increasingly apparent that there are no straightforward answers. HIV affects those ... Open Post

Dr. Rupert Kaul

Immune Correlates of HIV Susceptibility
University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital

Dr. Rupert Kaul, Professor at University of Toronto and Physician at Toronto General Hospital, became interested in HIV research soon after completing his Infectious Disease clinical training. For his initial ... Open Post

Ms. Maureen Mahan

Cultivating Health Care Knowledge
Educational Development Coordinator at Casey House, Toronto

Maureen Mahan recalls a conversation with June Callwood, a Canadian journalist and social activist, which struck a chord with her and inspired her future work. Callwood had just given a ... Open Post

Dr. Angela Kaida

Inspired by Activism
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Dr. Angela Kaida, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University, was influenced early on to pursue a career in HIV research. Born in Kenya with family connections ... Open Post

Ms. Jennifer Evin Jones

A Network for Change
Executive Director, Pacific AIDS Network

Evin Jones, Executive Director of the Pacific AIDS Network (PAN), has always been passionate about social justice issues. During her undergraduate years she was a participant in the anti-sexual violence ... Open Post

Dr. David Brennan

Taking Cues from the Community
Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work , University of Toronto

Community based research comes naturally for Dr. David Brennan. As an undergraduate student in Boston when the HIV epidemic was emerging, he quickly became involved through volunteer work. “I was ... Open Post

Dr. Patty Solomon and Dr. Kelly O’Brien

Leading the Way in HIV Rehabilitation in Canada

Thanks to significant research efforts to find treatments, people are now living longer and healthier lives with HIV. But living with HIV is still characterized by periods of good health ... Open Post

Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy

The Immune System and the Cure for HIV
McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal

HIV/AIDS was an little known disease when Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy was in his residency at Centre Hospitalier Général d’Aix-en-Provence in 1982. “Within 15 days of starting my residency, I got ... Open Post

Dr. Jeffrey Joy

People and Populations

Dr. Jeffrey Joy, Postdoctoral Fellow at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver likes the big picture, but the small one is pretty interesting too. As an evolutionary ... Open Post

Dr. Keith Fowke

Keeping it Quiet: HIV infection and Immune Quiescence

Dr. Keith Fowke, Professor and Head, in the department of Medical Microbiology and Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, describes the activated immune ... Open Post

Dr. James Blanchard

A Pragmatic Science
University of Manitoba

Dr. James Blanchard was working as a general practitioner at University of Manitoba’s Northern Medical Unit when he attended a conference that ultimately changed the way he thought about his ... Open Post

Dr. Joanne Otis

Better Research through Community Involvement
Université du Québec à Montréal

A Professor in the Department of Sexology and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Health Education at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Dr. Joanne Otis has long been ... Open Post

Mr. Terry Howard

Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV
Positive Living BC

It was while getting his feet wet in community-based research that Terry Howard realized he was going to have to significantly re-arrange the way he thought of how to go ... Open Post

Dr. Nitika Pant Pai

Point of Care HIV Testing
McGill University

“My research mission is to develop rapid screening strategies that directly impact patient care across global settings,” says Dr. Nitika Pant Pai of McGill University. “I feel our role as ... Open Post

Dr. Andrew Mouland

Host Cell Hijackers and RNA Trafficking

“The beauty of HIV-1 is that it has navigate its way through the cell, it has to touch everything,” explains Dr. Andrew Mouland, Head of the HIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory ... Open Post

Dr. Jacqueline Gahagan

The Writing on the Wall

It was spelled out in big letters for Jacqueline Gahagan and everyone else on the street to see. While helping with a research project in Ottawa as an undergraduate, she ... Open Post

Dr. Nancy Gibson

Learning to Listen: Community Based Participatory Research

“I’ve learned that without the expertise of community partners— my research just doesn’t work. Fortunately I learned that a long time ago,” A senior researcher at CIET Canada (McGill) and ... Open Post

Dr. Michel J. Tremblay

Host Targets of HIV

HIV is a tricky virus; it hijacks cells of the immune system, uses their machinery, spreads to other cells and evades the immune system to persist in the host indefinitely. ... Open Post

Dr. Zabrina Brumme

Finding predictability in the unpredictable
Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University and CIHR New Investigator Award winner

“I have a respect for it in a way…though perhaps ‘respect’ isn’t quite the right word,” explains Dr. Zabrina Brumme, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at ... Open Post

Dr. Peter Smith

Alleviating Pain in HIV Patients
University of Alberta

Acute pain, or ‘nociceptive’ pain, has an advantage—it tells us to stop whatever it was we were doing and prevents further tissue damage. ‘Neuropathic pain’ on the other hand, continues ... Open Post

Dr. Evan Wood

Advocating for evidence based health care
University of British Columbia and BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

With his groundbreaking research in the areas of HIV treatment and drug addiction, Dr. Evan Wood has changed national and international HIV treatment guidelines and policies for persons with drug ... Open Post

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With a membership of more than 1,000 researchers and others interested in HIV research, the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) is the leading organization of HIV/AIDS researchers in Canada. CAHR is the organizing body for the Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR Conference).

CAHR encourages Canadian researchers to be leaders in knowledge translation and to effectively respond both to the Canadian and global HIV/AIDS epidemics. Since its founding in 1991, CAHR has promoted excellence in HIV research, including mentorship and career development of investigators entering the field.

CAHR fosters collaboration and co-operation among HIV research communities, including basic, clinical and social sciences, epidemiology and public health. CAHR also engages people living with HIV/AIDS and AIDS service organizations in ongoing dialogue and information exchange to ensure that HIV/AIDS research remains responsive to the epidemic and its stakeholders.

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