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Collaborators

The PCHPI brings together scientists and facilities of the highest caliber to elucidate the interactions of HIV proteins with host cell factors. One of our highest priorities is to foster collaborations between HIV researchers and structural biologists. Results generated from these collaborations are expected to provide insight into an important area of HIV pathogenesis that is poorly understood and to open doors for exploring and developing alternative anti-HIV strategies. Those interested in pursuing a project related HIV-host cell protein interactions in collaboration with the PCHPI, please contact Teresa Brosenitsch.

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Tom Smithgall, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Velpandi Ayyavvo, Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Tatyana Polenova, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware

To help establish productive collaborations, the NIH has an RFA to fund projects aimed at studying HIV Proteins and Their Cellular Binding Partners (R21/R33). Also, beginning in 2009, the PCHPI will have funds available to support pilot project collaborations.