[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16248-16249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6719]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of 
Meeting

    Pursuant to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the 
Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
    The meeting will be open to the public, with attendance limited to 
space available. Individuals who plan to attend and need special 
assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in 
advance of the meeting.

    Name of Committee: Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
    Date: April 10, 2012.
    Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
    Agenda: The theme of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory 
Council (OARAC) meeting will be New Scientific Opportunities in AIDS 
Vaccine Research. The speakers at this meeting will focus on 
research to address: basic research on HIV vaccine design and 
development of new vaccine candidates; new assay systems for 
measuring systemic and mucosal immunity to HIV vaccine candidates; 
alternative adenovirus vectors; animal models for testing vaccine 
candidates; updates on the RV144 clinical trial; and plans for 
future clinical trials to advance HIV vaccine candidates to efficacy 
testing. An update will be provided on the

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latest changes made to the federal treatment and prevention 
guidelines by the OARAC Working Groups responsible for the 
guidelines.
    Place: National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Terrace 
Level, Suite T-500, Rockville, MD 20852.
    Contact Person: Robert Eisinger, Ph.D., Executive Secretary, 
Director of Scientific and Program Operations, Therapeutics 
Coordinating Committee, Office of AIDS Research, 5635 Fishers Lane, 
MSC 9310, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 496-0357; 
[email protected].
    Any interested person may file written comments with the 
committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed 
on this notice. The statement should include the name, address, 
telephone number and when applicable, the business or professional 
affiliation of the interested person.
    Information is also available on the Institute's/Center's home 
page: www.oar.nih.gov, where an agenda and any additional 
information for the meeting will be posted when available.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.14, 
Intramural Research Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research Loan 
Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 
93.232, Loan Repayment Program for Research Generally; 93.39, 
Academic Research Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired 
Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan Repayment Program; 93.187, 
Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged 
Backgrounds, National Institutes of Health, HHS)

    Dated: March 14, 2012.
Jennifer S. Spaeth,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2012-6719 Filed 3-19-12; 8:45 am]
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