Daily post from Keystone Symposia malaria meeting in Kampala: Day 2
This MESA Correspondents report has moved to its new home [...]
This MESA Correspondents report has moved to its new home [...]
This MESA Correspondents report has moved to its new home [...]
In collaboration with ASTMH, Image Audiovisuals, and session presenters, MESA brings you nearly 70 presentations from the 65th ASTMH annual meeting in Atlanta, November 2016.
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) hosted on November 16th a symposium to share key outcomes from the consultative process to update the malaria eradication research agenda (malERA). This review exercise, entitled “malERA Refresh”, has been led by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA) with the participation of more than 180 experts around the world.
Co-chairs from the malERA Refresh Panels will discuss the findings [...]
Another wave of MESA grantees have finalised their projects and shared their findings. Here is a short summary of progress.
Building on the success of MESA’s first collaboration with Keystone [...]
On April 11th, the chairs, co-chairs and rapporteurs from the [...]
“As a scientific worker we need innovation spirit to find new things” commented Tu Youyou in a telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.(1) The Chinese scientist was awarded the Prize for her discovery of artemisinin in the 1970s, now a life-saving antimalarial drug. Leading a small team of researchers, she was the first to isolate the active ingredient from the Artemisia plant, using ether to extract it.
MESA has teamed up with Keystone Symposia once again to offer scientists an [...]