MARCAD seeks to train a core group of African scientists in West and Central Africa who will be able to provide relevant answers for the control and elimination of malaria.
==>> Read more information
We go on with the campaign to commemorate the 11th February, International Day for Women and Girls in Science. We want to show the important role played by MARCAD and African women in general in the scientist field.
Virtue Fiawokome De-Gaulle is a young female researcher from Ghana, and the PhD fellow on the Ghana MARCAD Project. She holds Bsc in Home Science and a Master of Science in Applied Health Social from the University of Ghana.
The Noguchi Memorial Medical Research Institute (NMIMR), Accra / Ghana, hosted from 14th to 16th January 2019 The West African Network for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM) annual meeting which theme was “Empowering African Research Institutions through Capacity Building, Partnership and Networking”. The WANETAM2 program is comprised of four Nodes of Excellence created by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) to combat poverty-related diseases in Sub Saharan Africa. UCAD/MARCAD members are part of the WANETAM2 programme, they collaborate with the MRC The Gambia in the malaria work package and they have the responsibility of the Work package related to the Neglected Tropical Disease Node of Excellence, Prof Oumar Gaye is the PI and the Associate Professors Magatte Ndiaye and Doudou Sow the 2 CoPIs. The 2 CoPIs Dr Ndiaye and Dr Sow attended the meeting of WANETAM2 in Accra..
