Emory University will receive $7 million in federal funding as part of a seven-year national effort to develop a vaccine against HIV/AIDS.

The new Centers for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology & Immunogen Discovery will be funded by a total of $186 million and be directed by the Scripps Research Institute and Duke University. Emory, the Rockefeller University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Ragon Institute will support the effort.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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