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MBLA Conference at St Andrews
Monday 11th June until Wednesday 13th June delegates from all over the world assembled for the MBLA Conference at the University of St Andrews, School of Medicine. The conference was organized and sponsored by the University of St Andrews and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), in cooperation with the PanACEA Biomarkers Expertise Core. The conference…
EDCTP Workshop Johannesburg
From June 12-14th the EDCTP held a three-day competency training workshop in health research ethics, Good Clinical Practice and Good Clinical Laboratory Practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. The goal of the workshop was to improve the skills and capabilities of the participants to become a “Trainer-of-Trainers” or focal person within the research networks or regions…
New EDCTP Project Officer
As of June the PanACEA consortium welcomes Jean Marie Habarugira as the new EDCTP Project Officer. At the General Assembly meeting on June 11th the consortium had the first opportunity to get acquainted with him and an official visit will follow. Jean Marie Habarugira has been working for the EDCTP as Project Officer since 2010.…
GA Conference V
Building up to this quarterly General Assembly (GA) meeting on June 11th the Expertise Cores developed a comprehensive trial capacity development proposal. The Cores are eager to start and the General Assembly gave the final go-ahead for their plans. PanACEA is one year into the project now and an Annual Report was submitted to its…
Guide for EDCTP Grantees
Grantees of the EDCTP programme are obligated to acknowledge the EDCTP and EU as funders in all dissemination activities and publications. A guide on how to acknowledge EDCTP can be found in the EDCTP Media Kit, that also provides a brand manual. Go to: http://www.edctp.org/media-kit/