scientific projects of 2013

Scientific projects of 2013

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Funding programme Title Related project participants

Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

KP-FWO nanobody Katja Polman, ITM promotor Internal participant

De impact van artesunate amodiaquine herbehandeling en malaria immuniteit op malaria parasiet selectie.

Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant

De invloed van genetische diversiteit in Schistosoma parasieten op infectie- en ziektepatronen in de mens.

Katja Polman, ITM promotor Internal participant

De kloof overbruggen: Leishmania als paradigma voor het onderzoek naar de impact van genoomdiversiteit op metaboloomvariatie.

Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

Een beter begrip van HIV transmissie door isolatie en karakterisatie van HIV uit semen

Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

High throughput analyse van Taenia excretie/secretie produkten voor een verbeterd inzicht in gastheer-parasiet interacties en optimalisatie van immunodiagnostische testen in taenia solium cysticercose

Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant

In vivo transductie van dendritische cellen met mRNA voor de ontwikkeling van een immunotherapie


Krediet aan navorser Anna Rosanas-Urgell, ITM promotor Internal participant

Krediet aan navorsers Philippe Büscher, ITM promotor Internal participant

Trypanosome-binding proteins in the tsetse fly saliva favour the parasite transmission

Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant , P. De Baetselier, Partner, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium External participant , Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant

To evaluate the most accurate, rapid and economic alternative diagnostic method for tuberculosis detection in resource-constrained settings

Patrick Van der Stuyft, ITM promotor Internal participant , Tullia Battaglioli, Partner, Belgium External participant , Francine Matthys, Researcher Internal participant , EVERAERT Renilde, Administrator, ITM, Belgium External participant , Patrick Van der Stuyft, ITM promotor Internal participant

Een alternatieve manier voor een betere diagnose van multiresistente tuberculose : een snelle diagnostische test en een predictiescore

Robert Colebunders, ITM promotor Internal participant

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Genotypische & fenotypische karakterisering van rec. Sex.overgedragen HIV


Protective immunity after stop of HAART Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

CISO vzw 'Prise en charge du diabète en RD Congo'

Geert Laleman, Administrator Internal participant , Bart Criel, Coordinator Internal participant , Dirk Van der Roost, ITM promotor Internal participant , Josefien Van Olmen, Researcher Internal participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator Internal participant , Dirk Van der Roost, ITM promotor Internal participant

Outreach hiv-testing bij groepen met verhoogd risico (2012-2013)

Eric Florence, Coordinator Internal participant , Tom Platteau, Researcher Internal participant , Laura Albers, Researcher Internal participant , Bwalya Mwali, Researcher Internal participant , Elke Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

Vlaams Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid

Promoten van seksuele gezondheid en de preventie van hiv bij SAM

Christiana Nöstlinger, Coordinator Internal participant , Lazare Manirankunda, Researcher Internal participant , Jasna Loos, Researcher Internal participant , Bwalya Mwali, Researcher Internal participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator Internal participant , Monique Ceulemans, Administrator Internal participant , Zonder voornaam Mukwela Behuhuma, Other Internal participant

UBS Optimus Foundation Differential diagnosis of Buruli ulcer Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

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STOP Buruli Françoise Portaels, ITM promotor Internal participant

Stop Buruli, Benin fase II Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Stop Buruli, fase II Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

P. vivax control in Central Vietnam Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant

Diverse funders PB-sofi Stijn Deborggraeve Philippe Büscher, ITM promotor Internal participant , Saskia Decuypere, ITM promotor Internal participant , Stijn Deborggraeve, Researcher Internal participant , T. Leclipteux, Partner, Coris BioConcept Gembloux, Belgium External participant , Jan Jacobs, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Benedikt Ley, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , K. Gevaert, Partner, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) Gent, Belgium External participant

JVDA-sofi TRIPARTITE Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant

A Directed Search for a Treponema pallidum Antigen Test

Christopher Kenyon, ITM promotor Internal participant

JCD-sofi SINGLE Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

SOFI EWI Co-financiering EMJD Trans Global Health

Ann Verlinden, ITM promotor Internal participant

ARU-sofi Band3Malaria Anna Rosanas-Urgell, ITM promotor Internal participant

From genome to the field: a global study of pathogen genetic and metabolic diversity and its relationship to clinical phenotypes

Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

Long-term WIFS and malaria risks in early pregnancy : a randomised controlled trial

Sabine Gies, Administrator Internal participant , Umberto D`Alessandro (Umberto D'Alessandro), ITM promotor Internal participant , Dr. Brabin L., Partner, University of Manchester External participant , Tinto HALIDOU, Partner, Institut de

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Recherche en Science de la Sante (IRSS/DRO), Burkina Faso External participant , Bernard BRABIN, Partner, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), United Kingdom External participant

Secondaire Onderzoeksfondsen - Volksgezondheid Subsidie overeenkomst wetenschappelijk onderzoek 1 juli 2008 - 31 december 2012 tsn de Vlaamse Gemeenschap en het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Patrick Van der Stuyft, ITM promotor Internal participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator Internal participant

EWI Deelname meetings EOR Ann Verlinden, ITM promotor Internal participant

HIV-susceptibility Luc Kestens, ITM promotor Internal participant , Wim Jennes, Researcher Internal participant

The complete in vitro Plasmodium vivax cycle as a first step for understanding its biology and identifying new therapeutic targets.

Chantal Van Overmeir, Coordinator Internal participant , Jan Van Den Abbeele (Jakke Van Den Abbeele), Coordinator Internal participant , Annette Erhart, Coordinator Internal participant , Marc Coosemans, Coordinator Internal participant , Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant , Peter VAN DEN EEDE, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant

Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid LR - BCCM Biobank Leen Rigouts, ITM promotor Internal participant , Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

JCD-IUAP VII-Leish Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

JVDA-IUAP VII-Tryp Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant

JCD-BELSPO Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

BCCM Enterprise Resource Planning / Laboratory Information Management System : vijfde fase

Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Cholera Outbreaks at Lake Tanganyika Jan Jacobs, ITM promotor

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Induced by Climate change ? Internal participant

Het ontwikkelen van publieke cultuurverzamelingen van diatomeeën, polaire cyanobacteriën en mycobacteriën in België

Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant , Leen Rigouts, Coordinator Internal participant

EDCTP Preparing for clinical trials of interventions to improve the reproductive health of adolescent girls in sub Saharan Africa

Anne Buvé, ITM promotor Internal participant

Preparing for clinical trials with vaginal rings that protect women from HIV and unintended pregnancy

Tania Crucitti, ITM promotor Internal participant

Preventing tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in high-risk patients : a randomised placebo-controlled trial of prednisone

Graeme Ayton Meintjes, Coordinator, University of Cape Town, South Africa External participant , Lutgarde Lynen, ITM promotor Internal participant , Robert Colebunders, Researcher Internal participant , Robert John Wilkinson, Partner, Imperial College London, United Kingdom External participant , Gary Maartens, Partner, University of Cape Town, South Africa External participant , Elke Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

Safe and efficacious artemisinin-based combination treatments for African pregnant women with malaria.


Special populations and label expansion studies with the fixed dose combinations artemether-lumefantrine, etc in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique

Umberto D`Alessandro (Umberto D'Alessandro), ITM promotor Internal participant , V. CHALWE, Partner, Tropical Disease Research Centre (TDRC), Zambia External participant

Prevention of early mortality by presumptive tuberculosis treatment in HIV infected patients initiating antiretroviral therapy

Robert Colebunders, ITM promotor Internal participant , Ndama TRAORE Afsatou, Partner, Albert Schweizer Hospital, Gabon External participant , Davy KOMBILA Ulrich, Partner, Albert Schweizer Hospital, Gabon External participant , Matthis FRANK, Partner, Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen, Germany

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External participant , Josefo FERRO, Partner, Catholic University of Mozambique, Mozambique External participant , Ramiro MANUEL Isaias, Partner, Ministry Of Health, Prov. Health Dir.of the Sofala Province, Mozambique External participant , Zinhle MAKATINI, Partner, University of Limpopo Medunsa Campus, South Africa External participant , Marinus PRINS Jan, Coordinator, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands External participant , Frank VAN LETH, Partner, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Netherlands External participant , M.A. LANGE Joep, Coordinator, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands External participant , P. GROBUSCH Martin, Coordinator, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands External participant , Nadine PAKKER, Partner, Stichting AMC, Uganda External participant , William WORODRIA, Partner, Makerere University, Uganda External participant , Yukari MANABE, Partner, Infectious Disease Institute (IDI), Uganda External participant , Roy MUGERWA, Partner, Makerere University, Uganda External participant

Impact of the clinical trials on the health behaviours of the communities and the quality of the health services in West and East Africa

Umberto D`Alessandro (Umberto D'Alessandro), ITM promotor Internal participant , Koen Peeters, Researcher Internal participant

Characterisation of novel microbicide safety biomarkers in East and South Africa.

Dr MANDALIYA Kishor, Coordinator, International Center for Reproductive Health, Kenya External participant ,

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Anne Buvé, ITM promotor Internal participant , Veronica Jespers, Researcher Internal participant , Marleen TEMMERMAN, Partner, Universiteit Gent, Belgium External participant , Joseph VYANKANDONDERA, Partner, PROJET UBUZIMA, Rwanda External participant , Dr MOYES Jocelyn, Partner, Reproductive Health Research Unit, Johannesburg Nat.Office, South Africa External participant , Dr CHANGALUCHA John, Partner, MITU/NIMR, Mwanza Centre, Tanzania, United Republic of External participant , Janneke VAN DE WIJGERT, Partner, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands External participant , S. MCCORMACK, Partner, Medical Reserach Council, United Kingdom External participant , Prof. HAYES Richard, Partner, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom External participant

World Health Organisation WHO_KF_APW-TSA Catharina Fransen, Coordinator Internal participant , Tania Crucitti, Researcher Internal participant , Anne Van der Meer, Administrator Internal participant

Multicenter RCT of gatifloxacin-containing short-course regimen for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis


Support to the supranational reference laboratory at ITM


Small-scale evaluation of the efficacy and residual activity

Marc Coosemans, ITM promotor Internal participant

Support to the supranational reference laboratory at ITM


WHOPES large-scale testing and evaluation netprotect


IWT SialoTarg: advanced vaccines and pharmaceuticals targeted to

Bouke de Jong, ITM co-promotor Internal participant

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macrophages via sialoadhesin , Hans Nauwynck, Partner, PROVAXS, Lab Virology, Parasitology & Immunology, UGhent, Belgium External participant , Dirk Elewaut, Partner, IZIZ (Dept. Internal Med.), UGhent, Belgium External participant , Piet Stinissen, Partner, BIOMED, University of Hasselt, Belgium External participant , Leen Rigouts, Researcher, Unit Mycobacteriology, BMS, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium External participant

IAV Dirk Geysen, ITM promotor Internal participant , Abdelkebir RHALEM, Coordinator, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco External participant

Belgische Technische Coöperatie

Marché de services relatif au suivi technique continu des programmes de santé en RDC

Bart Criel, ITM promotor Internal participant , Valéria Campos da Silveira, Researcher Internal participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator Internal participant

RIZIV ARL Resistentiebepaling 2012 Catharina Fransen, Coordinator Internal participant

Avia-Gis VBORNET - European Network for Arthropod Vector Surveillance for Human Public Health

Marc Coosemans, ITM promotor Internal participant , Wim Van Bortel, ITM promotor Internal participant

Family Health International Phase III study to assess the role of Truvada in preventing HIV acquisition in women

Tania Crucitti, Coordinator Internal participant , Catharina Fransen, ITM promotor Internal participant , Yvette Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

Janssen Infectious Diseases BDG - IWT Baekeland Nele Coeck Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

A.N.R.S. Karakterisatie nieuwe gp120 remmer Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

The World Bank Burundi results-based financing for health impact evaluation

Bruno Meessen, ITM promotor Internal participant

VAIS Building instituttional capacity at the Mozambique INS

Evelyn Depoortere, ITM promotor Internal participant

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Janssen R&D, LLC Phase III placebo-controlled, double blind, randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy & safety of TMC207 in subjects with sputum smear-positive pulmonary infection with multi-drug resistant MDR-TB


Consultancy agreement Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Laboratory service agreement Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Unicef Western & Central Couverture universelle en Afrique 2.0 Bruno Meessen, ITM promotor Internal participant

UNFPA UNFPA CIDA H4+ Vincent De Brouwere, ITM promotor Internal participant

MRC Laboratories Fajara Towards strenghtening of the West African Node of excellence for TB, AIDS & malaria


Damien Foundation Belgium Studies, referentietaken en andere prestaties inzake Tuberculose en Buruli ulcus ten behoeve van Damiaanactie.


DF services Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

FDA descriptive Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant , Armand Van Deun, ITM promotor Internal participant

Resistance mechanisms Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant , Leen Rigouts, Researcher Internal participant

Tuberculosis: drug resistance surveillance 2009


MSF France Support to MSF tuberculosis projects Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

The Union BDJ - Union Trebucq study Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Technical assistance through lab services & operational research


The evaluation of a standardised treatment regimen of anti-tuberculosis drugs for patients with MDR-TB


Koning Boudewijnstichting Action research with sub-Saharan African migrants (SAM) to improve HIV prevention through a better understanding of the HIV epidemic

Christiana Nöstlinger, ITM promotor Internal participant

Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volkgsgezondheid

Nationaal Referentielaboratorium SOA (2013)

Catharina Fransen, ITM promotor Internal participant

Nationaal Referentielaboratorium SOA (2012)

Catharina Fransen, Coordinator Internal participant ,

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Tania Crucitti, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Elke Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

Medical Research Council MRC HEMA Koen Peeters, ITM promotor Internal participant , Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant , Susan Dierickx, Researcher Internal participant , Sarah O'Neill, Researcher Internal participant

MRC PRINOGAM Koen Peeters, ITM promotor Internal participant , Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant , Sarah O'Neill, Researcher Internal participant

European Commisson The impact of alternative care integration strategies on Health Care Networks' performance in defferent Latin American health systems

Luisa Vazques, Coordinator, Consorci de Salut i d'Atencio Social de Catalunya, Spain External participant , Jean-Pierre Unger, ITM promotor Internal participant , Pierre De Paepe, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Patrick Van Dessel, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Susana Amparo, Partner, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Colombia External participant , Isabella Samico, Partner, Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof.Fernando Figueira, Brazil External participant , Maria Rejane Ferreira da Silva, Partner, Fundaçao Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil External participant , Pamela Eguiguren, Partner, Universidad de Chile, Chile External participant , Angelica Ivonne Cisneros, Partner, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico External participant ,

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Mario Rovere, Partner, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina External participant , Fernando Bertolotto, Partner, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay External participant

Estimating the effective reproductive rate of M. Tuberculosis from changes in molecular clustering rates, to measure the impact of public health interventions on TB transmission


Therapeutic TriMix/Mrna BASED Vaccine in Chronic HIV-1 Infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

Guido Vanham, ITM promotor Internal participant , Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant , Felipe Garcia, Partner, IDIBAPS, Spain External participant , Kris Thielemans, Partner, VUB, Belgium External participant , Rob Gruters, Partner, EMC, Netherlands External participant , Christian Brander, Partner, IRSICAIXA, Spain External participant , Mireia Manent, Partner, SYNAPSE, Spain External participant

COST TD1302 - European network on Taeniosis/Cysticercosis


Implementation and coordination of a regional training programme

Tanguy Marcotty, ITM promotor Internal participant

Symbiotic bacteria as a delivery system for nanobodies that target the insect-parasite interplay

Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant

Communit-based scheduled screening and treatment of malaria in pregnancy for improved maternal and infant health : a cluster-randomized trial

Koen Peeters, ITM promotor Internal participant

Joint action improving quality in HIV prevention

Marie Laga, ITM promotor Internal participant

Care package for treatment and control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa

Manica Balasegaram, Coordinator, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Switzerland External participant , Lutgarde Lynen, ITM promotor Internal participant , Johan Van Griensven, Researcher

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Internal participant , Raffaella Ravinetto, Researcher Internal participant , Sally Ellis, Partner, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Switzerland External participant , Monique Wasunna, Partner, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Switzerland External participant , Ed Zijlstra, Partner, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Switzerland External participant , Tansy Edwards, Partner, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (LSHTM), tropical epidemiology group, United Kingdom External participant , Neal Alexander, Partner, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (LSHTM), tropical epidemiology group, United Kingdom External participant , Koert Ritmeijer, Partner, Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (MSF), Netherlands External participant , Ahmed Mudawi Musa, Partner, IED - Institute of endemic diseases, university of Khartoum, Sudan External participant , Ermias Diro, Partner, College of medicine and health sciences, university of Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia External participant , Sisay Yifru, Partner, College of medicine and health sciences, university of Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia External participant , Elke Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

Universal coverage in Tanzania and South Africa : Monitoring and evaluating progress

Marleen Boelaert, ITM promotor Internal participant

European & South African HIV co-infection research consortium

Robert Colebunders, ITM promotor Internal participant

Syndromic approach to neglected infectious diseases (NID) at primary health care level : an international


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collaboration on integrated diagnosis-treatment platforms

Syndromic approach to neglected infectious diseases (NID) at primary health care level : an international collaboration on integrated diagnosis-treatment platforms Zie project 316801

Emmanuel Bottieau, ITM promotor Internal participant

Syndromic approach to Neglected Infectious Diseases (NID) at primary health care level: an international collaboration on integrated diagnostic-treatment platforms

Philippe Büscher, ITM promotor Internal participant

Zie project 316802 Raffaella Ravinetto, ITM promotor Internal participant

Training of the One Health Next Scientific Generation in the Sahel and Maghreb

Tanguy Marcotty, ITM promotor Internal participant

Advocacy for the fight against neglected zoonotic

Christopher Saarnak, Coordinator, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark External participant , Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant , Tanguy Marcotty, ITM promotor Internal participant , Guy Hendrickx, Partner, Avia-GIS, Belgium External participant , Samson Mukaratirwa, Partner, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa External participant , Sue Welburn, Partner, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom External participant , Esther Schelling, ITM promotor, Swiss Tropical and public Health Institute, Switzerland External participant

Combined Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Microbicides

Anne Buvé, ITM promotor Internal participant

Combined Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Microbicides


Harmonizing Integrating Vitalizing European Research on AIDS/HIV

Bruno Gryseels, ITM promotor Internal participant

Socially inclusive health care financing in West Africa and India - Financing health care for inclusion

Bart Criel, ITM promotor Internal participant

European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents


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Building a research and education infrastructure for Africa

Lutgarde Lynen, ITM promotor Internal participant

Pan-European network for the study and clinical management of drug resistant tuberculosis


Assessing the impact of fee exemption on maternal health in West Africa and Morocco: new tools, new knowledge

Vincent De Brouwere, ITM promotor Internal participant , Bruno Meessen, Researcher Internal participant , Bruno Marchal, Researcher Internal participant , Fabienne Richard, Researcher Internal participant , Catherine Korachais, Researcher Internal participant , Karen Van der Veken, Researcher Internal participant , Catherine Lucet, Researcher Internal participant

Integrated control of neglected zoonoses: improving human health and animal production through scientific innovation and public engagement

Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant , Stanny Geerts, ITM promotor Internal participant , Guy HENDRICKX, Partner, Avia-GIS, Belgium External participant , Stig THAMSBORG, Partner, University of Copenhagen, Denmark External participant , Anne-Françoise PETAVE, Partner, Université Claude Bernard, France External participant , Franck BOUE, Partner, Agence française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments, France External participant , Irmgard MOSER, Partner, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany External participant , John MCDERMOTT, Partner, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya External participant , Saidou TEMBELY, Partner, Central Veterinary Laboratory, Bamako, Mali External participant ,

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Allal DAKKAK, Partner, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco External participant , Sonia AFONSO, Partner, Universidad Eduardo Mondlane (EMU), Mozambique External participant , Reuben OCHOLI, Partner, National Veterinary Research Institute, Nigeria External participant , Margarida CORREIA-NEVES, Partner, University of Minho, Portugal External participant , John HARGROVE, Partner, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa External participant , Ignacio MORIYON, Partner, University of Navarra, Spain External participant , Gunilla KAELLENIUS, Partner, Karolinska Institute, Sweden External participant , Marcel TANNER, Partner, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland External participant , Rudovic KAZWALA, Partner, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, United Republic of External participant , David KABASA John, Partner, Makerere University, Uganda External participant , Richard ROWLING, Partner, LAB901, Edinburgh, United Kingdom External participant , M. SCUDAMORE, Partner, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom External participant , Charles EISLER Mark, Coordinator, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom External participant , Isaac PHIRI, Partner, University of Zambia, Zambia External participant , Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant

Health equity and financial protection in Wim Van Damme, ITM promotor

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Asia Internal participant , Kristof Decoster, Researcher Internal participant , Bruno Meessen, Researcher Internal participant , Catherine Korachais, Researcher Internal participant , Sudarno SUMARTO, Partner, YAYASAN SMERU, Indonesia External participant , Emmanuel DE DIOS, Partner, UPECON FOUNDATION INC., Philippines External participant , Weerasak PUTTHASRI, Partner, International Health Policy program Foundation, Thailand External participant , Louk DE LA RIVE, Partner, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands External participant , Dao Huyen Thanh, Partner, Research & Development Center for Community Health Strategy, Viet Nam External participant

Identification and development of vaccine candidates for Buruli Ulcer Disease


European Commission Impact on equity of access and efficiency of Integrated Health care Networks (IHN) in Colombia and Brazil.

Luisa VASQUEZ, Coordinator, Consorci Hospitalari de Catalunya, Spain External participant , Jean-Pierre Unger, ITM promotor Internal participant , Pierre De Paepe, Researcher Internal participant , Patrick Van Dessel, Researcher Internal participant , Maria REJANE FERREIRA DA SILVA, Partner, Fundaçao Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil External participant , Ssusana MOGOLLON AMPARO, Partner, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia External participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator

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Internal participant

New tools for monitoring drug resistance and treatment response in visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent

Bart Ostyn, Coordinator Internal participant , Ilse Maes, Coordinator Internal participant , Marleen Boelaert, Coordinator Internal participant , Saskia Decuypere, Coordinator Internal participant , Simonne De Doncker, Coordinator Internal participant , Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant , (UA) MAES Louis, Partner, University of Antwerp, Belgium External participant , Manu VAN AERSCHOT, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant , Jean-Claude DUJARDIN, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant , Gabriele SCHOENIAN, Partner, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany External participant , Biometry) EICHNER Martin, Dr. (Dpt of Medical, Partner, University of Tübingen, Germany External participant , Lab) SALOTRA Poonam, Dr. (Molecular Biology, Partner, Indian Council for Medical Research, India External participant , Sciences) SUNDAR Shyam, Prof. (Institute of Medical, Partner, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India External participant , Immunology) Roy Syamal, Prof. (Infectious Diseases and, Partner, Council for Scientic and Industrial Research, India External participant , Suman RIJAL, Partner, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal External participant , Matt BERRIMAN, Partner, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

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External participant , Christiane HERTZ-FOWLER, Partner, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom External participant , Graham COOMBS, Partner, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom External participant , Meriem OUAKAD, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant

Multi-drug resistance in malaria in combination therapy : assessment of specific markers and development of innovative, rapid and simple diagnostics

Umberto D`Alessandro (Umberto D'Alessandro), ITM promotor Internal participant , Tinto HALIDOU, Partner, Centre Muraz, Burkina Faso External participant , E. ENATO, Partner, Tropical Diseases Research Group, University of Benin, Nigeria External participant , J. BOUSEMA, Partner, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania, United Republic of External participant , Dr VAN AMERONGEN Aart, Partner, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands External participant , Hendricus SCHALLIG, Coordinator, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT), Netherlands External participant , Colin SUTHERLAND, Partner, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom External participant , C. DANKS, Partner, Forsite Diagnostics Limited, United Kingdom External participant

EC Institute for Health & Consumer.Protection

Capacity building in combining targeted prevention with meaningful HIV surveillance among MSM-SIALON II

Marie Laga, ITM promotor Internal participant , Christiana Nöstlinger, Coordinator Internal participant , Wim Vanden Berghe, Researcher Internal participant , Veronica van Wijk, Administrator Internal participant

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, Hristo Prof. TASKOV, Other, National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Bulgaria External participant , Anke Dr. ENGELBERT, Administrator, Robert Koch institut, Germany External participant , Enrico MD GARACI, Other, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy External participant , Sandro CAFFI, Other, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaia Integrata Verona, Italy External participant , Saulius MD PhD CAPLINSKAS, Other, Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS External participant , Miroslaw Prof. WYSOCKI, Other, NIZP - PZH, Poland, Poland External participant , Paulo FERRINHO, Other, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal External participant , Adrian Prof. STREINU - CERCEL, Other, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Romania External participant , Jan STENCL, Other, Slovak Medical University, Slovakia External participant , Marija Ms. SELJAK, Other, National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia, Slovenia External participant , Angel Dr. GASSULL Miquel, Other, IGTIP, Spain External participant , Candela CALLE, Other, Hospital Duran y Reynals, Spain External participant , Johan CARLSON, Other, Swedish institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden External participant , Stuart LAING, Other, University of Brighton, United Kingdom External participant

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, Marie Laga, ITM promotor Internal participant

Eurosupport VI: Developing a training and resource package for improving the sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV/AIDS

Robert Colebunders, ITM promotor Internal participant , Christiana Nöstlinger, Researcher Internal participant , Veronica van Wijk, Administrator Internal participant , Ruth BORMS, Partner, Sensoa v.z.w., Belgium External participant , Alain LEGRAND, Partner, AIDES, France External participant , Johannes BOGNER, Partner, Max Van pettenkofer Insitute, Munich, Germany External participant , Caterina UBERTI-FOPPA, Partner, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Italy External participant , Zbignew IZDEBSKI, Partner, University of Zielona Gora, Poland External participant , Luis TAVIRA Tavora, Partner, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal External participant , Danica STANEKOVA, Partner, MOSTY AIDS, Slovakia External participant , Victoria GORDILLO, Partner, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain External participant , Gerjo KOK, Partner, Maastricht University, Netherlands External participant , Agnes KOCSIS, Partner, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom External participant

Federale Overheidsdienst Volksgezondheid

Risico voor de veiligheid van de voedselketen op introductie van schadelijke insecten en ziekte overdragende vectoren via het internationaal verkeer

Dirk Berkvens, ITM promotor Internal participant

Evaluatie en impactbepaling van post mortem detectiemethoden voor


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rundercysticercose

Vlaamse Overheid, Departement Economie, Wetenschap & Innovatie

Social Innovation in Public Health Impulse (SIPHI) fellowship programme

Wim Van Damme, ITM promotor Internal participant

I.L.R.I. Global Development Grant Number OPP1078791 "Improved vaccines for the control of East Coast Fever in cattle in Africa"

Dirk Berkvens, ITM promotor Internal participant

Institute of Medical Sciences Visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar State, India


Equilibres & Populations Défi jeunes Serge RABIER, Coordinator, Equilibres et Populations, France External participant , Vincent De Brouwere, ITM promotor Internal participant , Dominique Dubourg, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Bruno Marchal, Researcher Internal participant , Fabienne Richard, Researcher Internal participant , Renilde Everaert, Administrator Internal participant

World Health Organization Assessment of HIV virological assays for prequalification (Phase I)


Evaluation of operational characteristics of HIV assays


JANSSEN R&D IRELAND Research collaboration on microbicides Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

Opzegging contract GVH dd 23/06/2011 Guido Vanham, ITM promotor Internal participant , Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

BDJ - EDCTP RAFA Bouke de Jong, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Corinne Merle, Partner, LSHTM, London, United Kingdom External participant , Martin Gninafon, Partner, Centre National Hospitalier de Pneumo-Phtisiologie, Cotonou, Benin External participant , Oumou Bah Sow, Partner, Service de Pneumo Phtisiologie, Conakry, Guinea External participant , Dr Lo, Partner, National TB Control Program, Dakar, Senegal

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External participant , Helen McIlleron, Partner, University of Cape Town, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Cape Town, South Africa External participant , Andre Furco, Partner, UCL, London, United Kingdom External participant , Tatiana Galperine, Partner, Hôpital Tenon, France External participant

Food Safety Center MONITORING VECTOREN - FAVV budget 527.000

Maxime Madder, ITM promotor Internal participant

Internal Design and evaluation of non-viral carriers for mRNA

Guido Vanham, Coordinator Internal participant , Kevin Ariën, ITM promotor Internal participant

Food Safety Center Nationaal referentielabo 2009-2013 Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant , Leen CLAES, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant

National Tuberculosis Program External quality control - Tuberculosis supra national reference laboratory

Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant , Armand Van Deun, ITM promotor Internal participant

The University of Oklahoma Improving pig mgt to prevent epilepsy in B. Faso

Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant , Sarah Gabriël, Researcher Internal participant , Hélène CARABIN, Coordinator, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, United States External participant , Pierre Dorny, ITM promotor Internal participant

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Repellents as added control measure to long lasting insecticidal nets to target the residual transmission in southeast Asia: a step forwards to malaria elimination.


Alternative screening and case finding methodology for HAT and introduction support for new diagnostic tools


Integrated control of Taeniosis cysticercosis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Katja Polman, ITM promotor Internal participant , Kirezi Kanobana, Researcher

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Internal participant , Sarah Gabriël, Researcher Internal participant , W. Harrison, Partner, Imperial College of Science, London, United Kingdom External participant , Sabine Desager, Administrator Internal participant , Katja Polman, ITM promotor Internal participant

Antimalarial combination treatments in African pregnant women with P. falciparum infection


DGD Be-cause health: Plate-form belge pour la santé internationale

Lutgarde Joris, ITM promotor Internal participant

BUILDING CAPACITY TO CONDUCT HIGH QUALITY CLINICAL RESEARCH

Lutgarde Lynen, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - CIRDES BURKINA FASO 2013 Jakke Van Den Abbeele, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - CIZ ECUADOR 2013 Dirk Berkvens, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - DVTD SOUTH AFRICA 2013 Tanguy Marcotty, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - INAS MAROC 2013 Vincent De Brouwere, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - IPH INDIA 2013 Bart Criel, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - IPH UGANDA 2013 Bart Criel, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - ISP/PUCE ECUADOR 2013 Jean-Pierre Unger, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - NIMPE VIETNAM/NCMC CAMBODIA 2013


IC - TDRC ZAMBIA 2013 Umberto D'Alessandro, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC - UMSS BOLIVIA 2013 Patrick Van der Stuyft, ITM promotor Internal participant

IC INRB RD Congo 2013 Marleen Boelaert, ITM promotor Internal participant

Emerging Voices Guy Kegels, ITM promotor Internal participant

Institutional collaboration CHU Luc Kestens, ITM promotor Internal participant

Institutional Collaboration IMTAvH Peru Jean-Claude Dujardin, ITM promotor Internal participant

International Health Policies and Representation.

Evelyn Depoortere, ITM promotor Internal participant

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IPK-INHEM Patrick Van der Stuyft, ITM promotor Internal participant

Plate-forme belge pour la santé et la production animale sous les tropiques-be-troplive.

Eric Thys, ITM promotor Internal participant

Public information and sensitisation Jan Coenen, ITM promotor Internal participant

QUAMED 2013 Wim Van Damme, ITM promotor Internal participant

Seminars and events Ann Verlinden, ITM promotor Internal participant

SP - BURULI ULCER CONTROL 2013 Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

SP - CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT MALARIA 2013


SP - HIV PREVENTION IN SEX WORKERS 2013

Marie Laga, ITM promotor Internal participant

SP - VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS CONTROL 2013


SP- HIV prevention and reproductive health 2013

Marie Laga, Coordinator Internal participant , Anne Buvé, ITM co-promotor Internal participant , Thérèse Delvaux, Researcher Internal participant

Strategic Network Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant

Strategic Network Clinical Research Raffaella Ravinetto, ITM promotor Internal participant

Strategic network on Laboratory Quality Management

Jan Jacobs, ITM promotor Internal participant

Strategic Network on Neglected and Zoonotic Diseases


Federale Dienst Wetenschap, Techniek en Cultuur

Tickrisk, assessing ecological suitability for the spread of Boophilus microplus in West Africa

Maxime Madder, ITM promotor Internal participant , Maxime Madder, ITM promotor Internal participant

Vlaams Agentschap voor Internationale Samenwerking

Youngster's lab Ann Verlinden, ITM promotor Internal participant

Epicentre Collaboration agreement between ITM and Epicentre

Armand Van Deun, Coordinator Internal participant , Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor Internal participant , Françoise PORTAELS, Coordinator, ITM, Belgium External participant , Bouke de Jong, ITM promotor

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Internal participant

Vlaamse Overheid, Departement Economie, Wetenschap & Innovatie

CTU 2013 Raffaella Ravinetto, Coordinator Internal participant , Céline Schurmans, Researcher Internal participant , Yves Claeys, Researcher Internal participant , Diana Arango Jimenez, Researcher Internal participant , Joris Menten, Researcher Internal participant , Maaike De Crop, Researcher Internal participant , Harry van Loen, Researcher Internal participant , Danielle Van Melle, Researcher Internal participant , Elke Baeten, Administrator Internal participant

CTB DRC Survey Wim Van Damme, ITM promotor Internal participant

International Diabetes Federation

Mobile phone diabetes self-management support: a multi-countru-y analysis of its implementation in existing diabetes self-management education programmes in the DR Congo, Cambodia & the Philippines

Guy Kegels, ITM promotor Internal participant

FHI 360 Strategies to Combine PrEP with Prevention Efforts

Tania Crucitti, ITM promotor Internal participant

scientific projects of 2013

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