2012-23374. 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: November 8, 2012.

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Agenda: The topic of the meeting will be HIV and Women's Risk and Prevention: Back to Basics. The speakers at this meeting will focus on research to address: animal and tissue models to study HIV risk and prevention in women across the lifecycle; the role of genital tract immunology and inflammation on HIV risk and prevention; the genital tract microbiome and HIV risk; the application of new technologies such as genomics to better understand HIV risk and prevention in women, and how to leverage the current understanding of the basic biology of the genital tract for HIV prevention. An update will be provided on the latest changes made to the federal treatment and prevention guidelines by the OARAe 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, Office of Aids Research, Office of the Director, NIH, 5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9310, SUITE 400, Rockville, MD 20852, [phone]; [e-mail].

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: September 18, 2012.

Melanie J. Gray,

Program Analyst Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.