Federica Giammarino, Josefina Robertson, Victor Vestergren, Aswathy Narayanan, Alexandra Ahlberg, and Björn Nordberg.

The researchers receiving financial grants are:

Federica Giammarino, Postdoctoral Fellow, Karolinska Institutet, 400,000 SEK for the project “Amount of HIV-1 DNA in the latent viral reservoir in people living with different HIV-1 subtypes.”

Josephine Robertson, Associate Professor, ST in Infectious Diseases, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 400,000 SEK for the project “Pathogenic microorganisms as a cause of immune reactivation in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy.”

björn Nordberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, SEK 200,000 for the project “Tuberculosis case detection in people living with HIV: implications for the era of antiretroviral therapy.”

Aswathi Narayanan, PhD student, Karolinska Institutet, 200,000 SEK for the project “Redefining HIV treatment: the impact of antiviral and microbiome interactions on patient health outcomes.”

alexandra ahlberg, ST doctor and PhD student, Karolinska Institutet, 200,000 SEK for the project “Identifying local immune responses against HSV-2 – implications for HIV acquisition.”

Victor Westergren, Unit Director and Research Nurse, Södersjokhuset, 200,000 SEK for the project “Digi-PrEP: key to effective HIV prevention or risk of marginalization?”