Ray Arthur, Ph.D., Co-PI
National Center for Infectious Diseases |
Peter Nsubuga, M.D., Co-PI
Center for Disease Control | | Joint Global Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program in Kenya
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $2,817,182 for a four-year period to support in-country training in Kenya for epidemiology fellows and laboratory scientist fellows selected from the East African region. The fellows will be paired with mentors from the CDC and the U.S. Department of Defense laboratory programs in malaria, HIV, entomology, and select helminthes in an effort to build regional capacity to meet the challenge of emerging infectious diseases. |
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Donald D. Brown, Ph.D.
Life Sciences Research Foundation | | Post-doctoral Fellowship in Infectious Disease
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $153,000 to fund a three-year post-doctoral fellowship through the Life Sciences Research Foundation. The fellowship has been awarded to David M. Raskin, Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Raskin will be conducting research on Vibrio cholerae that will provide basic information about bacterial physiology, as well as identify novel drug targets and growth inhibitors. |
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Daniel Colley, Ph.D.
University of Georgia | | Training Innovations in Parasitological Studies
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $275,400 for a five-year period to provide funding for the Training Innovations in Parasitological Studies (TIPS) program at the University of Georgia. The multi-department program, developed and run by the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and the center for Undergraduate Research... (more) |
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Michael I. Goldberg, Ph.D.
American Society for Microbiology | | Caribbean Basin Research and Training Network on Infectious Diseases
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $150,000 for a three-year training project, The Caribbean Basin Research and Training Network on Infectious Diseases. Training for graduate and postdoctoral students from the Caribbean Basin region will be provided through a series of infectious disease minicourses to be held in... (more) |
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Richard L. Guerrant, M.D.
University of Virginia | | Center for Global Health
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $810,000 for a three-year period to the interdepartmental Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia in order to provide support for student and faculty research on health threats in impoverished countries. This support, matched by the University of Virginia, will promote the international exchange of expertise by... (more) |
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Gerald T. Keusch, M.D.
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health | | International Clinical Research Training Program
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $1,000,000 over 5 years to help support the Fogarty-Ellison International Clinical Research Training Program for U.S. and Developing Country Students of the Health Sciences. The training program will provide early career opportunities for U.S. medical or nursing students, or other graduate students in... (more) |
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T.V. Rajan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center | | Workshops in India: Clinical Research & Evidence Based Medicine
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $32,000 to initiate a training program by funding the first Clinical Research & Evidence Based Research Workshop, to be held in Chennai, India in August 2003. Physicians, from within India and abroad who are engaged in clinical and epidemiological research, will hold annual workshops over a period of five years for a group of Indian medical students to provide instruction and mentoring in the fundamentals of clinical research. Each student will be asked to develop a clinical research protocol and will have the direct availability of mentors for this research.
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Terri Taylor, D. O.
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
2003 Training Award in Global Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $50,000 to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene to enable them to fund a postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Ajay Bharti, an infectious disease fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Working in the Loreto Department of Peru... (more) |
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