New HIV vaccine center has Haynes at its helm.

The new Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), set up by the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a consortium of researchers at various universities who will collaborate with the goal of creating an effective HIV vaccine that can be used worldwide. Barton Haynes, a Duke University immunologist and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, is CHAVI’s new director. Haynes will work with foremost investigators Norman Letvin, Joseph Sodroski, George Shaw, and Andrew McMichael. Together they competed with and defeated 3 other potential teams to form the scientific leadership group for CHAVI, responsible for the overall work the consortium conducts. The JCI spoke to Haynes about his new position, the future of AIDS vaccines, and how this