[4] JCRC focuses on HIV/AIDS research in all age groups, clinical trials of ARVs, nutritional and social interventions and the concomitant treatment of tuberculosis.
Other board members include Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, the immediate past Principal of Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
[6] Prof. Peter Mugyenyi, the internationally recognized HIV/AIDS researcher and pediatrician, who founded the institution, serves as the centre's executive director.
[6][7] The JCRC has plans to build an international research hospital worth US$120 million in collaboration with Tokushukai Medical Group of Japan.
As part of that collaboration, a modern state-of-the-art research facility will be constructed at JCRC at a budgeted cost of US$33 million (approx.