The Grans Administrator of the PANGenS consortium co-led by the University of Ghana, Ms. Pamela Nai, has benefittd from a a two-day training workshop focused on financial and project management for Global Health EDCTP3 grant recipients. The training, organized by the EDCTP Association, in partnership with Global Health EDCTP3 was held in Dakar, Senegal and […]
Institution: Research Center Borstel Lead Investigator: Prof. Stefan Niemann; Dr. ir. Margo Diricks Date: 2024-07-23 Activity Update Date Activity was achieved Ethics Approval Not applicable Not applicable Recruitment Not applicable Not applicable Sample Collection Not applicable Not applicable Team Meetings Combined WP2/WP3 meetings organized and attended 28.03.2024, 25.04.2024, 30.05.2024, 27.06.2024 […]
The world celebrates World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 annually. A day set aside to commemorate the astounding discovery of the TB bacillus by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. Today, World TB Day represents more than a commemoration of a discovery. It serves as a poignant reminder of the ongoing global epidemic of TB, […]
For the first time, Mozambique hosted on the 5thof April 2024 a meeting to discuss a pilot study with the objective of implementing target Next Generation Sequencing (tNGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) as a diagnostic tool to be integrated in the National Health System of Mozambique, for further use on patient management care. The […]
The Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) of Mozambique part of the Pathogen Genomics (PanGen) consortium hosted a Bioinformatics training between 02nd – 11thApril 2024. This training was part of the activities for implementing Pathogen Genomics in Mozambique. The 07-days training held by the Research Centre of Borstel (RCB), Germany focused on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) […]
As part of the capacity-building activities of the 1st PANGenS in person kick-off meeting, a bioinformatics training was held for bioinformaticians/ research assistants of the PANGenS consortium. Participants were from both Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana (NMIMR-UG) and some of the participating African countries (i.e., Namibia, Gabon, Mozambique, Togo, Nigeria, Tanzania, […]
The Pan-Africa Network for Genomic Surveillance of Poverty Related Disease and Emerging Pathogens (PANGenS) project which officially began in July 2023, has held its first in-person meeting at the Noguchi Memorial institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana. The meeting, held on 16th January, 2024 brought together a consortia of 15 countries; 12 in […]