NIH Awards Children’s Hospital Los Angeles $17M for HIV/AIDS Research

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Grace Aldrovandi, MD, principal investigator at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, a $17 million grant as part of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network, according to a news release.

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Laboratories in the IMPAACT Network are studying and developing care standards for women, children and adolescents infected with HIV around the world.

The grant money will be used to provide scientific leadership and specialized lab testing infrastructure for labs in the network, according to the news release.

“Our work on optimizing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in these populations will benefit nations, communities and families throughout the world,” Dr. Aldrovandi said in the news release.

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