The Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research conducts research and other scholarly activities designed to identify, understand, and eliminate factors responsible for the profoundly disproportionate burden of AIDS and HIV infection among minority populations in the United States.
The CAHDR has three major areas of focus: biology, behavior, and community outreach. Researchers at the CAHDR study new mechanisms of HIV infections, pathogenesis, immunity, and develop novel means for intervention. The Center is reducing the burden of AIDS in local minority communities through basic, clinical, and translational research.
Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Interim Director CAHDR, & Professor
School of Medicine
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Center for Women's Health Research, Sickle Cell Center
Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Center for Women's Health Research, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Tennessee Area Health Education Centers Program
Nurse Practitioner
School of Graduate Studies and Research
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Center for Health Policy
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
piRNAs as Modulators of Disease Pathogenesis.
Kayla J Rayford, Ayorinde Cooley, Jelonia T Rumph, Ashutosh Arun, Girish Rachakonda, Fernando Villalta, Maria F Lima, Siddharth Pratap, Smita Misra, Pius N Nde
Bortezomib Sustains T Cell Function by Inducing miR-155-Mediated Downregulation of SOCS1 and SHIP1.
Ariana N Renrick, Menaka C Thounaojam, Maria Teresa P de Aquino, Evan Chaudhuri, Jui Pandhare, Chandravanu Dash, Anil Shanker
Building a Diverse Workforce and Thinkforce to Reduce Health Disparities.
Richard Yanagihara, Marla J Berry, Monica J Carson, Sandra P Chang, Heather Corliss, Marc B Cox, Georges Haddad, Christine Hohmann, Scott T Kelley, Eun Sook Yu Lee, Bruce G Link, Richard J Noel, Julie Pickrel, James T Porter, Gregory J Quirk, Temesgen Samuel, Jonathan K Stiles, Angela U Sy, Deborah A Taira, Mary Jo Trepka, Fernando Villalta, Thomas E Wiese
Activation of proline biosynthesis is critical to maintain glutamate homeostasis during acute methamphetamine exposure.
Bobby Jones, Muthukumar Balasubramaniam, Joseph J Lebowitz, Anne Taylor, Fernando Villalta, Habibeh Khoshbouei, Carrie Grueter, Brad Grueter, Chandravanu Dash, Jui Pandhare
Trypanosoma cruzi Modulates PIWI-Interacting RNA Expression in Primary Human Cardiac Myocytes during the Early Phase of Infection.
Kayla J Rayford, Ayorinde Cooley, Ashutosh Arun, Girish Rachakonda, Yulia Kleschenko, Fernando Villalta, Siddharth Pratap, Maria F Lima, Pius N Nde
Unique method for human villous trophoblasts isolation from placental tissue explants.
Ashley Serjilus, Donald J Alcendor