In recent years, The Campbell Foundation has been awarding what we call “fast-track grants” to South Florida-based researchers to demonstrate our commitment to addressing HIV/AIDS in our own backyard. As with any grant, we ask recipients to update us on how the funding we provide has made an impact. Most recently, we heard from Dr. Farouk Meklat, PharmD., a researcher at Broward Health Comprehensive Care Center in Fort Lauderdale, who was awarded a $25,000 grant. The funding

Here we are, it's already April and we've been quite busy these past few months. The Campbell Foundation has awarded its first grant

Although The Campbell Foundation’s main focus has always been to provide researchers with funding to discover better treatments for people with HIV, as well as research into a cure for HIV, each year we also provide smaller grants to organizations whose mission is to assist those with the disease. What many people may not realize is that those with HIV and AIDS face many other social and economic barriers. Some may not have transportation to get to their doctor appointments;

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

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