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Aaron Diamond AIDS Animal Models Laboratory, LEMSIP

Primate Laboratory

Tuxedo, New York, USA

Aaron Diamond AIDS Animal Models Laboratory, LEMSIP
RR 1, Long Meadow Road , Tuxedo , New York 10987-2015 USA
Director: Preston A. Marx Phone: 1 (914) 351-4597 Fax: 1 (914) 351-5258
Affiliations: New York University School of Medicine

Mission: The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the City of New York is an independent non-profit research corporation that was established in collaboration with the New York City Department of Health, The Aaron Diamond Foundation, the New York University Medical School and the Public Health Research Institute. The Diamond Center was established in 1991 to focus on the basic science of AIDS and HIV in a research environment conducive to the highest level of scientific creativity.

Principal Research Programs: NIH, National Cooperative Vaccine Development Group Program Project "Mucosal and Systemic Immunity to SIV and HIV"; NIH Collaborative Mucosal Immune Group "Mucosal SIV Vaccines in Male Rhesus Macaques"; Contraceptive Research and Development, "Effects of Progesterone Implants on Heterosexual Transmission of AIDS: A Simian Model"; NIH/NIAID Mechanisms of AIDS Pathogenesis; Early Events in Mucosal Transmission of SIV and SHIV

Training Opportunities: Educational opportunities available for: Graduate, Postdoctoral; Program emphasis: AIDS animal models; Financial support usually available

Number of Staff: Total (10)

Key Personnel: Preston A. Marx, Head of the AIDS Animal Models Laboratory at LEMSIP, E-mail: marx@adarc.nyu.edu
Agegnehu Gettie, Laboratory Manager
David Ho, Director/Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Richard Koup, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
John Moore, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Ned Landau, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Cecilia Cheng-Mayer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Donald Sodora, Post-Doc, Phone: 1 (212) 340-3747, E-mail: sodora@adarc.nyu.edu
Zhiwei Chen, Graduate Student, Phone: 1 (212) 340-3751, E-mail: chen@adarc.nyu.edu
Christine Russo, Senior Lab Technician, E-mail: chrusso@aol.com
Amara Luckay, Lab Technician, E-mail: aluckay@aol.com
Theresa Secrist, Administrative Assistant, E-mail: tsecrist@aol.com


Species Supported: Macaca mulatta (160)

Publications: "Journal of Medical Primatology" (annual special AIDS issue)

Entry created: 1998-03-30
Review requested: 2007-02-27
Entry last reviewed: 2003-07-18

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