Congratulations to the MARCAD postdoctoral Fellow Benoit Assogba awarded as one of the five top young African scientists to tackle infectious diseases prevalent on the continent.
MARCAD postdoctoral Fellow Benoit Assogba has been awarded training fellowships of The Crick African Network (CAN) as one of the five top young African scientists to tackle infectious diseases prevalent on the continent.
Benoît completed his Biochemistry MPhil at the University of Abomey Calavi, in Benin. Having developed an interest in mosquitoes as the insect ‘vector’ that carries malaria, he then joined the Entomological Research Centre of the Minister of Health as a Research Intern in 2007. There, he pursued his interest in vector biology and control, completing his masters and PhD.
He joined the MRC Unit the Gambia at LSHTM through Malaria Research Capacity Development (MARCAD) in 2017 for his first postdoctoral fellowship.
As a MARCAD program Fellow, Benoît works on ``Mass swarm trapping as malaria vector control strategy in Gambia´´.
The African Career Accelerator Awards, which were launched earlier this year, are designed to help early-career researchers make the transition to leading their own research groups in Africa.
The first cohort of CAN fellows will start to arrive at the Crick in the new year for training under the mentorship of group leaders with extensive experience researching diseases including HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria.
Call for one PhD position at UHAS, Ghana
DESCRIPTION OF FELLOWSHIPS
The MAlaria Research CApacity Development (MARCAD) Consortium in West and Central Africa is a partnership of institutions sponsored by the Wellcome Trust working in partnership with the Department of International Development (DFID) and the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA). The University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Senegal is the lead institution working in partnership with the University Health & Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ghana; the University of Yaoundé 1 (UYI), Cameroun; the Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia (MRCG), and the Malaria Research & Training Center (MRTC), Mali.
Beliefs hindering malaria control in pregnant women
[ACCRA] The perception by pregnant women that they are not at risk of malaria discourages them from going for prevention and treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study shows.
According to researchers, there is a need to explore the factors that influence the decisions of pregnant women to adhere to malaria interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read more: Beliefs hindering malaria control in pregnant women
Aminata Collé Lo research protocol
Aminata Collé Lo, a Researcher and Fellow of the MARCAD, calls for the monitoring of '' asymptomatic individuals to eradicate malaria''
The Senegalese researcher Aminata Colé Lô, whose research focuses on the ways and means to eliminate malaria in Africa, has advocated greater monitoring of ''asymptomatic individuals'' in order to eradicating this disease.
"The parasite responsible for malaria transmission is highly variable. It changes shape at the level of its genes to become'' resistant to drugs used. An eye should always be kept on the malaria status in the country'', recommended the specialist in parasitology.
Aminata Colé Lô was submitting her research protocol on malaria, on Wednesday, in Accra (Ghana), at the second annual meeting of the Alliance for the Acceleration of Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA).
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MARCAD Program Director, Prof. Oumar Gaye, optimistic about malaria pre-elimination
It is possible to achieve malaria pre-elimination in the North and the Centre of Senegal by 2020, said Professor Oumar Gaye, Director of the Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa (MARCAD) of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar(UCAD), on Monday in Accra (Ghana).
Read more: MARCAD Program Director, Prof. Oumar Gaye, optimistic about malaria pre-elimination
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