Pump-Priming Project Awards - Round 5 Awardees

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

Professor Veeraraghavan BalajiProfessor Veeraraghavan Balaji
Professor of Clinical Microbiology
Christian Medical College (India)

 

Understanding the impact of toxin variants on Diptheria vaccine and treatment

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Dr Caroline ChisengaDr Caroline Chisenga
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (Zambia)

 

Profiling long-term, antigen-specific memory B cells to oral Cholera vaccine in an endemic population

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Dr Tharangani Herath Dr Tharangani Herath
Senior Lecturer
Harper Adams University (UK)

 

 

Immunogenicity of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in fish following vaccine delivery via pH-responsive vaccine carriers within the feed

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Dr William Horsnell

Dr William Horsnell   Associate Professor  
University of Cape Town (South Africa) 

 

How pregnancy induced changes to maternal immunity influence efficacy of maternal vaccination against Streptococcus pneumonia

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Dr Khuzwayo JereDr Khuzwayo Jere
Lecturer
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Malawi) 

 

 

Enabling enterotogigenic E. coli vaccine introduction in Malawi using pathogen whole genome sequencing

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Dr Sudaxshina MurdanDr Sudaxshina Murdan
Reader/Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics  
School of Pharmacy, University College London (UK) 

 

A combination approach to vaccination against tick-borne bacterial infections, using antigens from the tick vector and the bacterial pathogen, and evaluating the elicited immune responses 

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Dr Sreeja LakshmiDr Sreeja Lakshmi
Research Scientist
King Nandhivarman College of Arts and Science (India)

 

 

Development of a novel Glycovaccine against Aeromonas hydrophila for tilapia aquaculture in India

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Dr Tania Rivera-HernandezDr Tania Rivera-Hernandez
Research Fellow
CONACYT/Medical Research Unit of Immunochemistry (Mexico)

 

 

Kick-starting production process development of a porin-based NTS vaccine: Strain selection

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Dr Carla Solorzano-Gonzalez Dr Carla Solorzano-Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) 

 

 

Humoral responses to a pneumococcal serotype-independent vaccine candidate and their correlation with protection against colonisation in the UK and Malawi

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Professor Robin ShattockProfessor Robin Shattock
Professor of Mucosal Infection and Immunity
Imperial College London (UK)

 

 

RNA vaccine for endemic Plague

 

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