University of Pittsburgh Gets $16 Million to Study HIV

The National Institutes of Health announced Monday it is awarding the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine a five-year, $16 million grant to establish the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions. The center will conduct research to discover what happens when HIV proteins interact with cellular components of host cells. Dr. Angela Gronenborn, chair of the school's department of structural biology, will head the new center. NIH also funds structural biology centers at the University of California-San Francisco and the University of Utah. "Efforts by Dr. Gronenborn and her colleagues to identify and image pivotal virus-host cell interaction could forge new avenues for drug discovery," said Dr. Ravi Basavappa, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' program director for the new centers.

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