Sevil Chelebieva, MHIRT fellow from the 2019 cohort, was featured in the Marin Independent Journal on September 9th, featuring her work done with mentor and professor Dr. Roland Cooper. Chelebieva, a student from Dominican University who was picked from a pool of highly competitive applicants to participate in CEND’s MHIRT program, spent the summer in

CEND-associated Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Research Initiative (IVRI) is happy to collaborate with Colin Ruggiero of Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, to bring more attention and hope to mesothelioma cancer. September 26 is Mesothelioma Awareness Day, designed to raise awareness of this rare cancer, research advancements, and the dangers of asbestos.   According to the American Cancer Society, over 1.7

About the Alliance Summer Institutes: Through our annual summer institutes at Makerere University, we have trained over 200 undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Health Sciences since our first institute in 2016. Student participants consistently provide positive feedback of their experience with the institute, and the impact goes beyond just words – we

Congratulations to our 2019-2020 CEND Fellows! Education is a core element of CEND’s programming. Fellowships provided through CEND support several levels of trainees, including undergraduates, masters or doctoral degree candidates, and postdoctoral fellows, in their pursuit of research related to emerging and neglected infectious diseases. Our CEND fellowships are the Irving H. Wiesenfeld, Kathleen L.

The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) is organizing the fourth in its series of annual research conferences to provide a platform for graduate students of the Centre to present their research work to a wider audience of national, regional, and international senior scientists. The conference will also host several keynote

From the computer mouse to robotic surgery, cancer treatments, Siri, and more, SRI’s 70+ years of innovation have created new industries, billions of dollars in market value, and lasting benefits to society. SRI Biosciences conducts advanced, interdisciplinary research to find solutions to global health problems. We are leaders in health sciences and clinical medicine with

The deadline to apply for the 2019 application cycle of the The Irving H. Wiesenfeld, The Kathleen L. Miller Graduate Fellowships and The Thomas C. Alber Science & Engineering for Global Health Fellowship has been extended to April 12th, 2019. Fellowships provided through CEND support several levels of trainees, including undergraduates, masters or doctoral degree candidates, and postdoctoral fellows,

Research Training at the Confluence of Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases in India The Global Infectious Disease (GID) training program seeks to to establish a sustainable research and training infrastructure at Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara (JSSU) University in Mysore, India dedicated to the study of the interaction of infectious diseases with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD).   The

Positions are available to study the molecular pathogenesis of Chlamydia trachomatis and other species of the family Chlamydiaceae in the laboratory of Professor Deborah Dean. The Lab is focused on the evolution and pathogenesis of C. trachomatis and other Chlamydiaceae spp. using state of the art techniques in comparative and functional genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, bacterial

Written by Robyn Jong, PhD Candidate, Stanley Lab The 11th annual CEND symposium addressed three core themes: Molecular Diagnostics, Antibiotic Resistance, and Helminthic Diseases. During each of the three sessions, three speakers presented scientific research projects, product development, and policy. Topic-specific panels at the end of the session allowed the audience to pose questions to