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…
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.…
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…
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/
Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL) is a partner in the PanACEA Consortium. Over the years CERMEL has become increasingly involved in TB research. The institute has developed a research group and a laboratory specialized in TB. To honor World TB Day, CERMEL organized a day of lectures, discussions and lab tours to educate…
On the 4th of May the Coordinator of PanACEA, Martin Boeree, was welcomed at WITS Health Consortium in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Mohammed Rassool and his team. WITS was active as site during PanACEA I and will be again for the PanACEA STEP IIC trial. On the 7th of May the Coordinator also visited ,…
College of Medicine (CoM) is one of the new partners of the PanACEA consortium. End of April a delegation from PanACEA traveled to Malawi for an assessment of the trial site. They were greeted with a warm welcome and a well organized visit. It was a good opportunity to get acquainted with our colleagues in the…
The PanACEA Annual Meeting was followed by a day of seminars, which was open to all PanACEA participants. The PanACEA Consortium Coordination and Finance Expertise Core organized a Financial Workshop where Rutger Spoor, Wendy Simons and Jaco Swart trained the participants in several components of Financial Management en Financial Reporting. Main subjects were managing en…
The General Assembly of PanACEA gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, on the 28th of February and the 1st of March 2018 for the second Annual Meeting of PanACEA II. Over 80 delegates from Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Gabon, The Netherlands, UK, Malawi, Switzerland, Mozambique and Uganda were present, together representing all PanACEA institutions. Special…
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Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd of February the Instituto Nacional de Saude (INS) welcomed a delegation existing of Martin Boeree, Lindsey te Brake, Rutger Spoor (Radboudumc), Lavinia Rodney, Robert Hunt (UCL) and Sarah Konsten (LMU), for the very first PanACEA II site visit. Overall the feedback of the delegation was very positive and the site…
