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Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research

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.

Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research Administration Team

Fernando Villalta, PhD

Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Interim Director CAHDR, & Professor
School of Medicine

(615) 327-6510
fvillalta@mmc.edu

Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research Research Team

Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research Publications

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