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Global Research Institute with new Professorship in Tropical Medicine and Focus on Implementation Research

Institute assumes tasks of a WHO Collaborating Center (WHO-CC) Implementation Research – Kontrast Personalberatung assists in filling position The research institute from Hamburg will establish the department of implementation research and, with the new professorship of tropical medicine, set up a new internationally staffed section that will conduct cross-disease and multidisciplinary research. Implementation research, considered… Read More »

Chemical offers new hope of finding treatments for neglected tropical diseases

Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a drug to kill the trypanosome parasite that causes human African trypanosomiasis, otherwise known as sleeping sickness, paving the way for a potential cure. The University of York researchers deciphered the mechanism by which the compound, known as AB1 works.  AB1 was identified by researchers at… Read More »