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Associated Press - September 8, 2009
Researchers from Rush University Medical Center, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Cook County Health and Hospitals System are involved.
The money will fund research to improve prevention, detection and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS.
Alan Landay, chairman of immunology and microbiology at Rush, will direct the new center, to be headquartered at Rush. Landay says it gives Chicago the chance to be "an epicenter for AIDS research."
Chicago ranks sixth among U.S. cities in the number of HIV cases, with approximately 21,000 known infections and another 5,000 presumed infections.
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