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The second annual meeting of the EU-funded project EDUFLUVAC coordinated by EVI took place on 19-20 October 2015 in Catania, Italy. During this meeting, the consortium reviewed recent achievements and agreed on an action plan for the coming months.
A placental malaria vaccine research and development project at the Faculty of Medical Health and Science of the University of Copenhagen leads to an encouraging discovery in the fight against cancer.
A letter sent by EVI to The Economist pointing out misleading figures in the article in the 10 October edition "Breaking the fever", has been published in the latest edition in the Letters section under Science v malaria.
This year’s BELLEROPHON annual meeting took place 8-9 October in Oxford, UK. Staying at Rewley house with two days of beautiful sunshine allowed the consortium to discuss in depth the past year's results.
The full article, entitled "The Influence of Sub-Unit Composition and Expression System on the Functional Antibody Response in the Development of a VAR2CSA Based Plasmodium falciparum Placental Malaria Vaccine", can be accessed via this link.
Media coverage in the form of two videos on YouTube dealing with Japanese efforts in the war against malaria in Burkina Faso have been produced under the SEmalvac project,
An article just published in Vaccine highlights the successful implementation of the TRANSVAC research infrastructure project, which was concluded in 2013. See also the TRANSVAC web site.
The European Research Infrastructures for Poverty Related Diseases (EURIPRED) has issued the following call:
5th call for application for free services. List of reagents extended
Deadline: 31 October 2015
The European and Developing Countries' Clincial Trials partnership (EDCTP) is currently seeking a Director of South-South Cooperation and Head of Africa Office.
Deadline for applications 21 December 2015
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Two years after the completion of the European Commission funded, EVI co-ordinated TRANSVAC project, results are still emerging, such as the recent article in PLOS neglected tropical diseases: Deep Sequencing Analysis of the Ixodes ricinus Haemocytome