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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 2008 Awardee
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- 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.
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| 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
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| 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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| 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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