The NIH and Wellcome Trust announce a partnership with researchers in Africa.

-The NIH and Wellcome Trust announce a partnership with researchers in Africa in support of Africa’s population-based studies

London, June 2010.- what: the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the Department of health and human services of the United States, and the Wellcome Trust, a charitable organization based in London (United Kingdom)they announced a partnership with researchers in Africa to support studies based on the population in Africa relative to usual and diseases not reportable as heart disease and cancer, as well as reportable diseases such as malaria.

When: 11 a.m. BST; 6 a.m. EDST on Tuesday, June 22

where: room 303, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE.

Directions at http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Contact-us/Travel-information/index.htm.

Ponentes:

Doctor Francis Collins, director of the U.S. NIH

Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust

Dr. Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

Dr. Pat Goodwin, responsible for the Department of pathogens, Immunology and population of the Wellcome Trust studies

Dr. Charles Rotimi, director of the Center for research on Genomics and global health of the NIH and the NHGRI senior investigatorNIH

Doctor Bongani Mayosi, Professor of medicine and head of the Department of medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town in South Africa