Welcoming New Members April 2024
We are very happy to welcome 40 new members. The VALIDATE community has now grown to 725 members, in 315 institutes in 76 countries.
Affiliates
- Mr Francis Adu-Amankwaah, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Dr Maria Asiimwe, Makerere University, Uganda
- Mr Maxence Julian Boggio, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Dr Rania Bouzeyen, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA
- Mr Teklemichael Tesfay Gebremariam, Aksum University, Ethiopia
- Ms Lina Giraldo Parra, CIDEIM, Colombia
- Dr Sarah Himmelfarb, University of Washington, USA
- Dr Victoria Kasprowicz, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), South Africa
- Dr Megan Ceris Matthews, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Ms Oktawia Polak, Aberystwyth University, UK
- Mr Krunal Polra, Imperial College London (ICL), UK
- Dr Robert Pierre Rousseau, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
- Ms Deblina Sarkar, IPGMER, India
- Mr Dawit Eyayu Tegaw, Debre Markos University, Ethiopia
- Prof Arfan Yousaf, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan
Associates
- Dr Musse Girma Abdela, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Dr Chiraz Atri, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
- Dr Raymonde Bamboukou Bekale, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Dr Ines Brahmi, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
- Asst Prof Ana Marcia de Sa Guimaraes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Dr Rudranil Hazra, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
- Dr Shi-Hsia Hwa, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), USA
- Asst Prof Styliani Karanika, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Dr Anurag Kushwaha, Banaras Hindu University, India
- Dr Yumna Moosa, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), South Africa
- Dr Iliana Chantal Martínez Ortiz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
- Dr Agness Farai Nhidza, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
- Dr Daniela Pagliara Lage, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
- Dr Nyarie Sithole, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA
- Dr Happy Tshivhula, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Dr Umashankar Vetrivel, ICMR-NIRT, India
- Dr Chuangqi Wang, Colorado State University, USA
- Dr Arin Wongprommoon, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
- Assoc Prof Muluken Azage Yenesew, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
- Mr Girma Zewdie Delelegn, National Veterinary Institute (NVI), Ethiopia
Investigators
- Prof Paulo Antas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil
- Dr Claudia Brodskyn, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil
- Dr Sukanta Chowdhury, icddr,b, Bangladesh
- Dr Dinesh Mondal, icddr,b, Bangladesh
- Asst Prof Sangeeta Tiwari, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), USA
Membership is free and open to anyone who is interested in developing vaccines for leishmaniasis, leprosy, tuberculosis and melioidosis. Let your colleagues and friends know about the benefits of VALIDATE membership and how to join.
Published 5 April 2024
