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AIDS Researchers South Africa 2005 In September of 2005, I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to teach a group of young AIDS researchers from South Africa and other African nations about HIV genetic diversity. The diversity of HIV is important to understand for vaccine design, epidemiology, and antiretroviral drug design.


My 2005 trip was funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency in part because the type of molecular biology involved in these studies uses radionuclides such as 32P and 35S, and in part because the IAEA has several global health programs involving HIV/AIDS.


In 2008, I plan to attend another, similar training workshop in Cape Town; the14th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology held September 1-5, 2008. I am currently seeking a sponsor to help me with this training mission.

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BrianFoleyLANL I made it to Cape Town, without a sponsor. 0 Dec 8 2008, 6:48 PM EST by BrianFoleyLANL
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I was able to go back to Cape Town this September for the Virus Bioinformatics workshop.
Without a sponsor, I had to pay my own way, which put my family in a bit of a financial bind.
But we will recover from it, and the workshop went very well.

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BrianFoleyLANL Please let me know if you have fund-raising ideas. 0 Apr 18 2008, 12:45 PM EDT by BrianFoleyLANL
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As a genetics and virology researcher, I know how to write grant proposals to the NIH to get funding for research. I have never before attempted to round up $3,500 specifically for one trip to a teaching workshop. I have done many training trips within the USA and Canada, which are covered under the education and outreach part of our HIV Databases grant. However, the cost of this trip is excessive due to the long flight to South Africa, so I need to find a sponsor. The sponsor would get a bit of advertising on the workshop sponsor's page:
http://www.rega.kuleuven.be/cev/workshop/index.php?id=14

I would prefer not to take money from a pharmaceutical company with interests in treating AIDS patients. Not that it would create any conflict of interest on my part, but because I am much more interested in prevention of new infections, through vaccines and behavior changes, than in treating people after they get infected. Anyway, if any of you have ideas, please share them with me.
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Adobe Portable Document Format CapeTownBioinformaticsPoster.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 474k)
posted by BrianFoleyLANL   Apr 17 2008, 5:16 PM EDT
The Poster descibing the Bioinformatics Workshop in Cape Town
Adobe Portable Document Format SA-FoleyInvite.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 221k)
posted by BrianFoleyLANL   Apr 17 2008, 2:40 PM EDT
My invitation letter

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