Emory University will receive $7 million for HIV/AIDS vaccine research

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.