The NCI awarded a 5-year, $8.3 million research grant to Weill Cornell Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Center and Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil to investigate strategies to prevent HPV-related cancers among individuals with HIV.

The grant will fund design and implementation of three clinical trials that will focus on oropharyngeal cancer and cervical cancer. Both malignancies are caused by HPV infections, and rates of these cancers are significantly higher among individuals with HIV.