Pump-Priming Project Awards - Round 2 Awardees

Dr Annette Erhart,
Clinical Epidemiologist
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM (The Gambia)

Molecular epidemiology of Group A Streptococcus in West Africa (acronym: MEGAS)

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Dr Rowena Hoare,
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (UK)

Optimisation of novel mucosal vaccines to prevent bacterial diseases of Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

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Professor Calman MacLennan,
MRC Senior Clinical Fellow, Jenner Investigator and Group Leader,
Jenner Institute, University of Oxford (UK)

Advancing a native outer membrane vesicle vaccine against gonorrhoea towards clinical development

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Dr Sudaxshina Murdan, Associate Professor
School of Pharmacy, University College London (UK)

Evaluation of the sublingual route of immunisation for the induction of mucosal and systemic immune responses to polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines 

Dr Andrew Preston, 
Reader in Microbial Pathogenesis
University of Bath (UK)

Developing whole cell vaccines with tailored immunogenicity through combinatorial engineering of lipid A

Dr Nadja Alexandra Vielot,
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)

Prevalence and serotype distribution of group B Streptococcus in León, Nicaragua

Professor Brendan Wren,
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK)

Towards the production of Shigella plus” a low-cost recombinant Shigella glycoconjugate vaccines

 Dr Qibo Zhang, 
Senior Lecturer in ImmunologyInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool (UK)

Development of a novel intranasal vaccine against pneumococcal infection in children