the NIH and Wellcome Trust announce a partnership with African researchers
-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
Doctor Sekou Traore, Member of the Department of basic sciences of the Faculty of pharmaceutical and dental medicine of the University of Mali and director of the Malaria Research and Training Center Entomology/Mali International Center for Excellence in Research
