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Justin Joseph Pollara

Associate Professor in Surgery
Surgery, Surgical Sciences
116 SORF Building, Box 2926 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
116 SORF Building, Box 2926 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Nonhuman Primate Core-Option 6

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2032

Impacts of genetic variation in the Fc gamma receptor locus on functionality of natural killer cells and monocytes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2024 - 2029

Quantitative Methods for HIV/AIDS Research

Inst. Training Prgm or CMESteering Committee Member · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2018 - 2028

HVTN Lab Center: B Cell Supplement

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2023 - 2027

Synthetic DNA launched & adjuvanted Immune Focused Env immunogens for HIV

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology · 2022 - 2027

HVTN Laboratory Center: Phase 1 PF

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2022 - 2027

SOSIP-NP/mRNA combination for novel preventive and therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine regimens

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2022 - 2027

Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE)

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2026

Project 2: RNA vaccination in early life to induce potent and broad HIV Env-specific antibody responses

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Weill Cornell Medicine · 2022 - 2026

CIVICS Component A - Option 5

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

Escape of maternal plasma broadly neutralizing antibody responses as a mechanism of mother to child HIV transmission

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Weill Cornell Medicine · 2021 - 2025

Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2025

Improving transplant organ survival through the mitigation of donor-derived mitochondrial damage-associated molecular patterns

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

IgG and FcR Characterization in Small Animal Models of Respiratory Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dartmouth College · 2023 - 2025

Nonhuman Primate Option 6

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2025

CoVPN 5001 A Prospective Study of Acute Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2022 - 2024

Student Traineeship Award

FellowshipMentor · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2023 - 2024

Novel nonviral gene therapy platform

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2023 - 2024

Novel Recombinant Streptococcus mitis as an oral vaccine against HIV/AIDS

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nova Southeastern University · 2020 - 2024

New Analytic Approaches and Endpoints in Human HIV Vaccine Correlate Studies

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Dartmouth College · 2022 - 2024

HVTN 405/HPTN 1901 (CoVPN) Characterizing SARS-CoV-2-specific Immunity in Convalescent Individuals

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2022 - 2023

Early life B cell responses and inflammation following SARS-CoV-2 infection

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022

CARE Focus 1: Latency Biomarker Project

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2018 - 2022

CARE Focus 2: Clearance of HIV Antigen-Positive Cells

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2016 - 2022

HVTN 405/HPTN 1901 (CoVPN) Characterizing SARS-CoV-2-specific Immunity in Convalescent Individuals

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · 2020 - 2022

Combined Hepatitis B and HIV-1 Envelope Infant Vaccination to Augment T cell Help through Enhanced Linked Recognition

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2022

Project 2: RNA vaccination in early life to induce potent and broad HIV Env-specific antibody responses

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Weill Cornell Medicine · 2020 - 2021

Primate Contract Expansion for Covid-19

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2021

Antibody and viral determinants of protection against CMV infection following gB/MF59 vaccination

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019

Exploring Dual-Affinity Re-Targeting Proteins for Cure of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

Creation of a bnAbnectin

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by ViiV Healthcare · 2017 - 2019

CARE Duke-UNC Latency Biomarker Supplement Year 2

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2016 - 2018

Exploring ADCC for cure of pediatric HIV-1 infection using a cord-blood CD4 Tcell model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation · 2014 - 2016

Central Laboratory for the HIV Vaccines Trial Network

ResearchResearch Technician II · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2000 - 2006

External Relationships


  • NIH Grant Review Panel, not for profit US government

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