Pump Priming Project Awards Round 10 Awardees

Listed below are the successful projects awarded in our tenth round of pump priming.  

Dr Prisca Benedicto-MatamboPrisca BENEDICTO-MATAMBO
Lecturer
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Malawi

Advancing the understanding of cell mediated immunity to natural Shigella infection through functional immunological approaches

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Dr Caroline ChisengaCaroline CHISENGA
Acting Head-Enteric Disease and Vaccine Research Unit
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Zambia

Binding and functional serum antibodies to Shigella antigens and the risk of shigellosis in a cohort of Zambian children in the first 3 years of life

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Dr Giuseppe ErcoliGiuseppe ERCOLI
Senior Research Associate
University College London, UK

Towards a protein-based pneumococcal vaccine for at-risk adults in low-resource settings

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Dr Malick GibaniMalick GIBANI
Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases
Imperial College London, UK

Establishing a Novel approach to Plague Vaccine testing - A Feasibility Study of an Attenuated Yersina pestis Vaccine Challenge Model

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Dr Kristin HuseKristin HUSE
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Imperial College London
UK

Analysis of vaccine antigen expression in a diverse collection of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates

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Dr Tanya MonaghanTanya MONAGHAN
Clinical Associate Professor and
Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist
University of Nottingham, UK

Development of a WHO International Standard for anti-Clostridioides difficile toxin neutralising serum (human)

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Dr Vartul SangalVartul SANGAL
Assistant Professor
Northumbria University, UK

Immunogenic screening of novel diphtheria vaccine candidates effective against the toxin variants and nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains causing invasive infections

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Dr Tahir YousafzaiTahir YOUSAFZAI
Assistant Professor
The Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Addressing the silent pandemic - capturing the public health impact of typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction on antimicrobial use

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