AIDS Research Center (ARC)
May 15, 2026
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Outline
The AIDS Research Center (ARC) was established in 1988 to reinforce Japanese research activities on HIV/AIDS. This center, consisting of four divisions, is defined to target HIV- and other retrovirus-related diseases. The contemporary mission of ARC is to holistically push forward multi-scale, complex system infection biology which can contribute to HIV control.
Current activities of ARC include surveillance and epidemiological analyses on HIV infection in Asia and Africa as well as Japan, assurance of HIV/HTLV infection diagnostics sensitivity and accuracy, development of disease markers and monitoring domestic drug-resistant HIV variants, research on replication and pathogenesis mechanisms of HIV and related retroviruses, and deconvolution of complex system virus-host interactions comprising in-depth utility of animal AIDS models and understanding of antiviral immunity.
ARC performs multifaceted collaborations with overseas and domestic counterpart research laboratories. ARC also annually holds a training course, “Strengthening laboratory techniques and surveillance system for global control of HIV and related infectious diseases” to collaborate with researchers and laboratory workers mainly in African and Asian countries.