A national consortium of researchers led by a team at UNC-Chapel Hill has won a major federal grant aimed at curing AIDS.

The group was awarded $32 million over five years to seek ways to cure HIV patients by eradicating hidden reservoirs in the immune systems of patients taking anti-retroviral drugs.

It’s part of the first major funding initiative aimed at eliminating HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from the cells and tissues of patients, said Dr. David Margolis, a professor in UNC’s School of Medicine and its Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is the principal investigator for the group, which includes researchers from nine other universities.

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