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Pan-African Malaria Genetic Epidemiology Network (PAMGEN)
Objectives
- Create sustainable, innovative strategies and methods to collect, manage, share and analyze standardised data on human and parasite genetic variation, gene-disease association, and gene-environment interactions
- Nurture African leadership by identifying and training the next generation of African researchers through advanced degree programs in genetics and genomics; large-scale data analysis; and bioethics.
- Use human, parasite, and vector population and functional genomics research to drive the development of new tools to support malaria elimination programs across Africa.
Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, The Gambia
University of Ghana (UG), Ghana
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Mali
Institut Pasteur of Madagascar (IPM), Madagascar
National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) Tanzania, Tanzania
University of Buea (UB), Cameroon
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alfred Amambua Ngwa
Lucas Amenga-Etego
Lemu Golassa
Abdoulaye Djimde
Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
Deus Ishengoma
Tobias Apinjoh
Dominic Kwiatkowski †
This project aims to create a robust network of African scientists – within and outside Africa– in collaboration with leading researchers around the world, who use the latest genetics and genomics science to contribute towards malaria elimination efforts in Africa. By combining data from across the continent and from across human, parasite, and vector samples, PAMGEN will better understand the deadly evolutionary arms race of malaria.
The project is divided into four separate studies, according to P. falciparum parasite data, P. vivax parasite data, vector data, and human data.
Basic Science
Enabling Technologies & Assays
Genetics and Genomics
Health Workforce
Information Systems
Tools for Elimination
Jan 2017
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