Christophe Fraser has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project BEEHIVE (Bridging the Evolution and Epidemiology of HIV in Europe).

Christophe Fraser was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant during the 2013 selection round, for the project BEEHIVE (Bridging the Evolution and Epidemiology of HIV in Europe). The €2.5m project will start in Feb 2014 and run for 5 years. During the project, viral RNA sequences will be generated and analysed from over 3,000 infected individuals with known date of infection and well characterised clinical follow up. Aims include discovery of viral determinants of infection virulence, and improved undertsanding of the pan-European dynamics of the currently resurgent epidemic.

Key team members are Paul Kellam (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Marion Cornelissen and Ben Berkhout (Amsterdam Medical Centre), Frank de Wolf (Imperial College), Peter Reiss (Dutch HIV Monitoring Foundation), Kholoud Porter (UK Register of Seroconverters) and Laurence Meyer (INSERM).