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News reports have surfaced in recent weeks of how those with HIV are now living long enough to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The good news in all of this is that we have been able to develop medications and treatments to keep those with HIV and AIDS alive for significantly longer than ever before. The recent case making headlines involves a 71-year-old man with amyloid deposits in the brain that were detected by a PET scan. These deposits have been linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

In the 30-plus years since the AIDS epidemic began, laboratory researchers have been seeking a cure. This goal would be hard with any major illness that spread like wildfire through certain populations, but it has been made exponentially more difficult due to the HIV virus’ craftiness. HIV mutates faster than any other virus we’ve seen and between mutations and different strains of HIV, research teams have had their work cut out for them. A vaccine would be the holy grail to

It’s a new year and a new opportunity to fund enterprising and exciting research in the field of HIV/AIDS. We wrapped up 2015 on a high note, reaching the $1 million mark in funding to direct service organizations. But even more significantly, we reached the $10 million mark for total funding since The Campbell Foundation’s inception 21 years ago. That brings us to a new report recently released by Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) which found that global private funding fo

Although The Campbell Foundation traditionally has focused on funding individual research, sometimes being part of something bigger makes sense. That’s one of the reasons we decided last year to provide amfAR with a $50,000 matching grant for HIV cure research. amfAR, like The Campbell Foundation, is dedicated to the support of HIV/AIDS research, so when they came to us with a proposal to provide a matching grant, it made sense. The Campbell Foundation could harness the power

In 2013, The Campbell Foundation provided an $86,431 grant to a team of researchers at the University of California Davis to develop a gene therapy strategy designed to generate an HIV-resistant immune system in patients. Joseph Anderson, principal investigator of the study and assistant professor of internal medicine at UC Davis, along with his team, modified human stem cells with genes that resist HIV infection. They then transplanted a near-purified population of these cel

Funding AIDS research isn’t just about finding a cure for the disease. Funding AIDS research means a lot more to us at The Campbell Foundation. When Richard Campbell Zahn established this foundation, it was his desire to not only support clinical laboratory-based research into the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, but also conditions and illnesses that go along with the disease. Since 1995, The Campbell Foundation has funded alternative, nontraditional avenues of research