
Dennis odera
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20-11-2010 10:05:48
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Today for #BlackHistoryMonth we celebrate Kenyan immunologist, paediatrician and educator Faith Osier. Faith is President, International Union of Immunological Societies & Professor Tropical Medicine Oxford #AfricansInOxford. Hear Faith's Ted Talk here: bit.ly/33D9nO9 KEMRI-Wellcome Trust IDeAL, Africa








TRAILBLAZER: Yaw Bediako - a Ghanaian Immunologist (PhD), an advocate for the dev’t of a sustainable research ecosystem in Ghana & across sub-Saharan Africa. May is African Liberation Day month. Throughout this month, we'll uplift Black healthcare specialists from the Continent.



Want to join a team with Faith Osier and Hedda Wardemann to discover how antibodies protect from severe malaria? You will be part of a diverse team, spanning structural biology (you) to assessing human responses to malaria challenge. We have great electron microscopes for you to use!



NEW: Oxford R21 malaria vaccine receives World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation paving the way for global roll-out. The vaccine developed by Oxford & SerumInstituteIndia demonstrates a high efficacy. The jab could reduce over half a million malaria-related deaths annually. #OxfordVaccine


Happy to share our paper where we revealed malaria parasite's waste management system KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Nuffield Department of Medicine Tropical Medicine Oxford Wellcome nature.com/articles/s4146…



Thurs Jan 18 EPPIcenter Seminar: Sylvia Portugal - Survival strategies of malaria parasites in the dry season calendar.ucsf.edu/event/eppicent… spread the news Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Prof Gerry Killeen Freddy Frischknecht Fredros Okumu Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Rosheen Sungeni Mthawanji 🇲🇼 bugbitten Francesco Baldini @MafaldaSViana


Circadian rhythms play a role in human vaccination responses, where patients vaccinated in the morning experience a better response to vaccines compared with patients vaccinated in the afternoon/evening, according to a 2022 Science Immunology Focus. 📄: scim.ag/5dS
