Dr. Fabrizio Poccia, Dept. of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Italy (1998)
Grant subject: “Mechanisms of activation and anergy of Vg9Vd2 T cells in the course of HIV-1 infection: a rationale for non-peptidic vaccination with phosphoantigens”
Host Institute: Dept. of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. (1997).
Host Institute: International Centre of AIDS and Emerging & Re-emerging Infections IRCCS “L.Spallanzani” Rome (1998)

Dr. Tatjana Borissova Sumerska, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Sophia, Bulgaria (1998)
Grant subject: “The role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in the Fas/Fas- ligand induced apoptosis in HIV or MTB/HIV infection”.
Host Institute: Dept. of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy.

Dr. Mitra Salehi Sirjani, Institut Pasteur, Tehran, Iran (1998)
Grant subject: “Use of an insertion sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex specific ISMYC for epidemiological and in vitro kinetic studies”.
Host Institute: CNR, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Rome, Italy

Dr. Bruno Padrazzi, University of Padua, Italy (1998)
Grant subject: “Development of in Vitro Tests for the Evaluation of HIV vaccines efficiency and Preliminary Studies on Candidate Vaccine”.
Host Institute: CIRBS, Paris, Hospital St. Joseph, France

Dr. Marilina B. Santucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (1999)
Grant subject: “The analysis of the role of the interaction of Fas / Fas-ligand and the expression of a molecular CD14 in mechanism of activation-anergy-apoptosi during infections of MTB and HIV”.
Host Institute: Dept. of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

Dr. Rita Casetti, ENEA, Rome, Italy (1999)
Grant subject: “In vitro and in vivo gd T cell response to nonpeptidic antigens in non-human primates”
Host Institute: International Centre of AIDS and Emerging &
Re-emerging Infections IRCCS “L.Spallanzani” Rome

Dr. Alessandra Sacchi, CNR Tor Vergata Area, Rome, Italy (1999)
Grant subject: “Characterisation of the immune response against the protein coded by the insertion element IS-myc of Mycobacterium tuberculosis”.
Host Institute: Institute of Experimental Medicine, CNR Research Area “Tor Vergata”, Rome