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The 2015 – 2016 Research in Progress kicks off on August 17.

As a consortium tasked with operational research, SCORE is finding out what current and future NTD program managers need to do to make mass drug administration (MDA) for schistosomiasis a better intervention in terms of alternative approaches. SCORE is also working to evaluate and develop tools needed by national program managers for mapping and diagnostics.

Boris Striepen, distinguished research professor, talks about the new tools his lab has developed for studying cryptosporidium in the laboratory. The lab’s discoveries were recently published in Nature.

PREP@UGA wraps up its first year and will be welcoming a new cohort July 1.

Fourteen Japanese parasitologists helped celebrate the 25th year of the Molecular Parasitology/Vector Biology Symposium.

Vasant Muralidharan, assistant professor in the Department of Cellular Biology and member of CTEGD, received the Basil O’Conner Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation.

Click on the post title to view the speaker schedule for this year’s symposium.

Dr. Shipra Vaishnava, former CTEGD trainee in the Striepen Research Group, has been appointed to the faculty of Brown University in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.