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Recent Awardees

Congratulations to the following grant recipients who will receive funding from ISID to carry out research projects in infectious diseases:

SSI/ISID Fellowships | ISID Small Grants | ISID Scientific Exchange Fellowships | ISID/ESCMID Fellowshis

ISID SSI/ISID Fellowships
(Swiss Society for Infectiology / ISID) Research Fellowship Program

2012 Awardees

Dr. Botond Lakatos, Hungary
Saint Laszio Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Lakatos will conduct his research in collaboration with scientists from the Infectious Diseases Divisions in Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Dzmitry Viktaravich Piskun, Belarus
Belarusian State Medical University
Dr. Piskun will conduct his research in collaboration with scientists from the Infectious Diseases Divisions in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Fall 2012 Awardees

Dr. Soledad Negrotto, Argentina
Laboratorio Trombosis Experimental, Instituto de Medicina Experimental (IMEX), CONICET-Academia Nacional de Medicina
Understanding platelet-RNA virus interaction
Dr. Samwel Odiwuor, Kenya
Medical Laboratory Sciences Mount Kenya University
Determination of Leishmania tropica diversity and distribution within sand flies in an endemic focus of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Kenya
Dr. Philip Owiti, Kenya
USAID-AMPATH partnership
Integrating HIV services for tuberculosis patients in Western Kenya: how well are we doing?
Dr. César Rodriguez, Costa Rica
Research Center for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica
Revealing novels aspects of cell wall synthesis and ß-lactam sensitivity in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium: studies on the interactome of the periplasmic protease Tsp and the outer membrane lipoprotein NlpI
Mr. Techalew Shimelis, Ethiopia
Hawassa University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Performance evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests for detection of Cryptosporidium antigen in stool specimen from patients with HIV/AIDS
Dr. Mohammad Sohail, India
University Department of Zoology, Vinoba Bhave University, Jharkhand
Investigation on the role of nitric oxide production and singe nucleotide diversity during malaria anemia for protective and diagnostic potential among malaria endemic population of Jharkhand

Spring 2012 Awardees

Dr. Phuc Hong Le, Vietnam
National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
An economic evaluation of the introductIon of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine In Vietnam, Including its impact on high-risk HlV-infected children
Dr. Peter Maturi Mwamba, Kenya
University of Nairobi, College of Health Sciences
Study of AF1q/CD44 expression status across the spectrum of Burkitt’s lymphoma (endemic v. sporadic v. epidemic)
Dr. Emmanuel Odjadjare, Nigeria
Western Delta University, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Molecular epidemiology of Vibrio species isolated from environmental, food and clinical samples in a fast growing semi-urban town in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Dr. Tseren-Ochir Erdene-Ochir, Mongolia
State Central Veterinary Laboratory
Studies on characteristics and distribution of avian influenza viruses in wild birds of Mongolia and genetic comparison avian influenza viruses isolated from North East Asia includes Mongolia and Korea
Ms. Nikita Sahadeo, Trinidad
University of the West Indies
A high-throughput next-generation molecular study of viruses associated with suspected dengue cases in Trinidad and Tobago

Fall 2011 Small Grant Awardees

Dr. Alisone Githendu, Kenya
University of Nairobi, School of Medicine, Department of Human Pathology
Effects of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate on plasma and cervical lavage HIV viral load
Dr. Carlos Machain, Mexico
Autonomous University of Yucatan, Arbovirology Laboratory, Regional Research Center (Hideyo Noguchi).
Importance of rodents as reservoir hosts of arthropod-borne viruses in Merida City, Mexico
Ms. Beth Mutai, Kenya
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Basic Science Laboratory
Burden of tick borne pathogens in patients with acute febrile illness in Kenya
Ms. Guomkuo Mafopa Nadége, Cameroon
“Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research and Management of HIV/AIDS
Quantification and importance of broad neutralizing antibodies in vertical transmission of HIV in Cameroon
Dr. Braulio M. Valencia, Peru
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt, "Grupo de Investigacion de Leishmaniasis
Leishmania RNA virus as a possible determinant of pathogenicity in American Tegmentary Leishmaniasis: detection and quantification of viral load clinic samples

2012 Awardee

Dr. Elyara Maria Soares, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciéncias Farmaceuticas de Ribeirão, Dept. de Analises Clinicas, Toxicologicas e Bromatologicas
Leukotriene signaling and immunoregulation in postpartum Streptococcus infection. In collaboration with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

2011 Awardees

Dr. Isaac Clement, Nigeria
Ambrose Alli University, Department of Zoology, Tropical Disease Research Unit
Human African trypanosomiasis in Nigeria: identification of animal reservoir hosts and characterisation of the tsetse fly vector. In collaboration with the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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