Brigham and Women's Hospital has received two grants totaling $140 million to fund AIDS research.
Two grants, awarded by a branch of the National Institutes of Health, will fund a network of about 60 clinical research sites around the globe. Daniel Kuritzkes chairs the organization that received the grants: the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, headquartered at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"The progress that we have been able to make here in the US and in the developed world over the last 25 or 30 years through the availability of anti-retroviral therapy is just the beginning of working to eradicate this epidemic and making sure that we can have an AIDS free world."
Ed Perlmutter was diagnosed with HIV in the summer of 2006. He said learning more about the virus is important.
"It’s a sneaky virus, and the medications are suppressing the virus, they are not making it go away," he said.
Perlmutter said he believes an AIDS free world is possible
"I do think that in my lifetime there will be a cure because of the incredible amount of research that continues," he said.
The grants will fund research for seven years.
