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
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
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, 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 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, 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
“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
“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
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
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
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, 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
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, 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
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, 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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, 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, 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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
CAHR 2023
April 27 to 30, 2023
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.
CAHR is a registered charity.
For more information or to make a comment, please contact us:
Canadian Association for HIV Research440 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 200
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 7X6