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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
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| Fall 2005 Awardees |
- Nobre Vandack
Internal Medicine Division, Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dr. Vandack will conduct her research in collaboration with scientists from the Infectious Diseases Divisions in Geneva, Switzerland
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| Fall 2006 Awardees |
- Ragupathy Viswanath
Department of Experimental Medicine, Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India
Project: Divergent HIV strains circulating among the Intravenous Drug Users (IDU) in South India
- Leonardo Nimrichter
Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana Instituto de Microbiologia - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project: Plant defenses against fungal pathogens
- Adedayo Adeyemi
Healthmatch International, Nigeria
Project: Antiretroviral therapy use, clinical and virologic outcomes for a cohort of HIV–infected Adults in Mainland General Hospital, Lagos Nigeria
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| Spring 2006 Awardees |
- Zeinab Hassan
The Hashemite University, Jordan
Project: Reporting rate of occupational injuries and exposure to blood borne infections among Jordanian healthcare workers: A descriptive study
- Khaled Mustafa Swaileh
Biology & Biochemistry Dept. Bireit University, Palestinian Territories
Project: Microbial health risks associated with consumption of untreated water from household roof catchment systems
- Ines Badano
Laboraorio de Biiologia Molecular Aplicada Facultad de siencias exactas Quimicas Y Naturales, Universidad nacional de Misiones, Argentina
Project: TNF-alpha promoter Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) cervical infection in Guarani Indian women inhabiting the rainforest of Misiones, Argentina
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| 2005 Awardees |
- Maria Eugenia Alvarez
Department of Immunology, Hematologic Research Institute, National Academy of Medicine, Argentina
Project: Characterization of host response during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by gene expresson profiling
Ms. Alvarez will conduct her research in collaboration with the TB Center of the Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey, USA.
- Varsha Atul Potdar
Department of Retrovirology, National Institute of Virology, Pune, India
Project: Application of sensitive methodologies for detection of transmitted HIV drug resistance
Dr. Potdar will conduct his research in collaboration with the Centers for Infection, Heatlh Protection Agency, London, England
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