Martin Delaney Collaboratory

Martin Delaney

The Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research is the flagship NIH program on HIV cure research.

The purpose is to foster dynamic, multidisciplinary collaborations between basic, applied, and clinical researchers studying HIV persistence and developing potential curative strategies. This is accomplished by establishing partnerships across academia, industry, government, and community, with a goal of leveraging common resources to accelerate the pace of HIV cure research and engage the next generation of HIV cure researchers.

The program was launched in July 2011 with the funding of three Collaboratories: CARE, DARE, and defeatHIV. In July 2016, the program was expanded to include three additional Collaboratories (BELIEVE, BEAT-HIV, and I4C) for a total of six Collaboratories, supporting a total of approximately 300 researchers. In 2021, the program was further expanded to 10 Collaboratories, with one of them focused specifically on HIV cure research in infants and children.

PAVE Grant Number: UM1AI164566

The National Institutes of Health has awarded approximately $53 million in annual funding over the next five years to 10 research organizations in a continued effort to find a cure for HIV. The new awards for the Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research program further expand the initiative’s 2016 renewal from six institutions to 10, and represent a funding increase of approximately 75 percent. Additionally, one of the new grants is focused specifically on HIV cure research in infants and children.