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Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇
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🌍 The 2nd #Imaging4All call is OPEN 🎉
Researchers in LMICs can apply for fully funded visits to access imaging technologies & training worldwide.
🔗 Info: www.globalbioimaging.org/i4a
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🔬 Imaging facilities—please share & host a grantee!
Rounding off the day we had a remote talk from CAN alumnus Peter Quashie followed by our final CAN fellow Tracey Jooste!
Current CAN fellows JP Maree and Jerry Joe Harrison were up next, with JP updating on the challenges of lab setup and Jerry Joe giving an insight into his cryo-EM work
CAN alumni Simon Kimuda and Benoit Assogba spoke on their CAN journeys and current work
@pippa-matt.bsky.social is now speaking on her crucial hepatitis b work, with her talk titled: Understanding diverse treatment outcomes of hepatitis b infection
Day two has started with talks from Kondwani Jambo, Malawi Liverpool School Wellcome Trust, on Understanding Residual Pneumococcal Burden in the Era of Conjugate Vaccines,
Prince Adjei om his work at the Global Health Network, plus tech fellows Caron Jacobs and Tim Reid from the IDM at UCT!
Now we have an exciting panel discussing Managing high-end technology platforms in low- and middle-income
countries. Lucy Collinson and Gordon Awandare moderating with Joyce Ngoi, Ben Loos, Yaw Aniweh and Abdul Sesay
This afternoon we heard from three of our wonderful technology development fellows: Janica Theron (electron microscopy - Stellenbosch), Betty Oliver (MRC UVRI LSHTM Uganda - flow cytometry) and Joyce Ngoi (WACCBIP - genomics)
Photo of Delegates at the meeting convene for refreshment under a shady tent.
Photo of WACCBIP sign at the University of Ghana
The @crickafricanetwork.bsky.social is meeting this week in Accra… hosted by #WACCBIP 🧪🇬🇭
A very warm welcome (in every sense!).
Day 1: Pathogen biology, vaccines, microscopy, diagnostics, careers, funding, connections, sustainable democratisation of skills & technology.
@crick.ac.uk #LifeArc
@em-stp.bsky.social next we have Lucy Collinson, Francis Crick institute: The VP-CLEM-Kit: A new concept for democratising advanced imaging workflows
Now we have Munya Musvosvi, University of Cape Town: Development of sample processing platforms for TB biomarker translation and immune monitoring
Ruan Marais, University of Cape Town, is now speaking on Applied metagenomics in South Africa
Now Leopold Tientcheu, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, is speaking on
Investigating Host Immunity and Bacterial Diversities Influences on Post-TB
Lung Diseases Pathogenesis and Host-Directed Therapy
Invited speaker Lydia Mosi from WACCBIP is now speaking on Mycobacterium ulcerans transmission in West Africa: the search for reservoirs and vectors
Next up is Sheila Balinda from MRC/UVRI/LSHTM Uganda, giving a progress update on HIV-1 Reservoir Kinetics in Uganda
First up, CAN fellow Abdou Camara from WACCBIP is speaking about antigen-specific cell profiling for early prediction of long-lived vaccine-induced memory
And we're off! Listen in here: wacren.zoom.us/j/6189898517... #CANannualmeeting
Are you in Accra or able to join via Zoom? The Crick Africa Network annual meeting takes place this week - details here www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
What is tuberculosis, and why does this curable disease still kill over a million people yearly?
Reserve your spot now for our free public talk by Crick group leader @maxgg.bsky.social on his lab’s research into TB.
📅 Wednesday 9 April, 10-11am
#WorldTBDay2025
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Exciting to read about Crick Africa Network alumnus Yaw Bediako in the news today. His company, Yemaachi Biotech, is building Africa’s largest cancer database to drive more inclusive research and better treatments.
PhD applicants of Black or mixed Black heritage are encouraged to apply to our lab via the Crick's inaugural recruitment for Future Leaders in Biomedical Sciences Scholarships.
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Excited to be at the AREF 10th anniversary celebration conference. Looking forward to lots of amazing talks about developing research in Africa!
Meet Leopold Tientcheu, a LifeArc funded Crick Africa Network career acceleration fellow who has been working with the Host-Pathogen Interactions in Tuberculosis Lab over the last three months
🔗 www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...
youtu.be/4qfhLk9Rb3w
Incredible news that Robert Wilkinson, who established the Crick Africa Network in 2017, has been recognised with an OBE in the New Year's Honours list!