On the 12th/13th November the WACCBIP DELTAS programme inception meeting took place in the Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology department at the University of Ghana, Accra. This five year programme led by Dr Gordon A. Awandare is funded by the Wellcome Trust to provide PhD and post-doctoral opportunities…
For ten years, the Royal Society-Pfizer Awards have been recognising outstanding African Scientists. For the first time this year, on the 19th October, there were two awardees. The advanced award was presented to Prof Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (Democratic Republic of Congo), in recognition…
The MRC have recently agreed to fund a three year project in the lab investigating human serum efficacy determinants in Trypanosoma brucei, specifically looking at intracellular transport and activation of the lytic factor(s). This will employ a similar approach to that used to identify the efficacy determinants of the…
