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

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ISID SSI/ISID Fellowships (Swiss Society for Infectiology / ISID) Research Fellowship Program
Fall 2008 Awardee
  • Dr. Alain Kenfak, Cameroon
    General Hospital of Yaoundé
    Dr. Kenfak will conduct his research in collaboration with scientists from the Infectious Diseases Divisions in Geneva, Switzerland.
ISID Small Grants
Fall 2009 Awardees
  • Ms. Marlinang D. Siburian, Indonesia
    Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology
    Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis B virus in Minangkabaus sub-ethnic of West Sumatera, Indonesia
  • Dr. Iskra Tuero, Peru
    Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Inst. de Medicina Tropical Alesander von Humboldt, Laboratory of Immunology
    TCR gd+ T cells: perforins/granulysins production with Leptospira
  • Dr. Marsia Gustiananda, Indonesia
    Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology
    Prediction of T-cell epitopes of influenza A and the analysis of T-cell responses targeted to the proteome of influenza A virus in Indonesian population
  • Mr. Anthony Kebira, Kenya
    Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Medical Microbiology
    Evaluation of HIV evolution and its role in development of antiretroviral drug resistance, within a cohort
  • Dr. André Talvani, Brazil
    Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas (ICEB II), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas
    Inflammatory angiogenesis in the cardiac remodeling during experimental Chagas disease
  • Dr. Robert Paulino, Dominican Republic
    Instituto Dominicano de Estudios Virologicos (IDEV)
    Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) detection in men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Dominican Republic
Spring 2009 Awardees
  • Mr. Godwin Kwakye-Nuako, Ghana
    University of Ghana Medical School, Department of Microbiology
    Toxoplasmosis in Ghana: Seroprevalence study in the coastal population
  • Mr. Nicholas Kiulia, Kenya
    University of Pretoria, Institute of Primate Research, Dept. of Medical Virology, Enteric Viruses Research Group
    Hospital-based surveillance to estimate the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children under five years of age in a rural setting (Meru hospital) in eastern part of Kenya
  • Ms. Katherine Torres, Peru
    Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘Alexander von Humboldt,’ Molecular Epidemiology Unit
    Role of regulatory T-cells and their association with the clinical outcome of malaria infection (symptomatic and non-symptomatic individuals) in Peruvian Amazon
  • Dr. George M. Varghese, India
    Christian Medical College, Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases
    Genotyping of Orientia tsutsugamushi from patients with scrub typhus
  • Ms. Pauline Byakika, Uganda
    Makerere University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine
    Pharmacokinetics and safety of artemether/lumefanitrine when administered concomitantly with Lopinavir/Ritonavir in HIV positive Ugandan patients with uncomplicated malaria
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ISID Scientific Exchange Fellowships
2009 Awardees
  • Ms. Rosa Ramírez Bartutis, Cuba
    Laboratorio de Biología Molecular, Departamento de Virología, Instituto Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kourí"
    Characterization of immune response elicited by dengue 2 virus recombinant NS3 protein immunized with dengue 4 virus recombinant E protein in mice.  Research will be done at the Laboratório de Genómica Estrutural Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Centro de Ciéncias da Saúde, Brazil.
  • Ms. Lilian Ogonda, Kenya
    Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
    Expression of FeyRIIa, FeyIIa, FeyRIIIa and Fey RIIb on monocytes of children after treatment for severe malaria.  Research will be done at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, USA
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