2025 Travel Bursaries

Successful recipients of travel bursaries awarded for the BactiVac 6th Annual Network Meeting are listed on this page, together with testimonials highlighting the value of receiving these awards to facilitate travel to our Annual Network Meetings.

Recipients from Africa

Mr Eyob Assefa
Assistant Researcher
National Veterinary Institute
Ethiopia

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Prof Mohamed Elhadidy
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Director of Center for Genomics
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Egypt

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Mr Lyona Chimwemwe Kalua
Pre-Masters Trainee
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme
Malawi 

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Ms Dhvani Kuntawala
Laboratory Research Assistant
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Zambia 

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Miss Prettimore Mafirakureva
Principal Research Scientist
Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre
Zimbabwe

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Mr Ifeanyi Elibe Mba
Doctoral Student Fellow
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

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Dr Esther Muthumbi
Assistant Professor
Aga Khan University
Kenya

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Ms Cynthia Mubanga
PhD Research Fellow
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Zambia 

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Recipients from Asia

Dr Jonathan Hasian Haposan

Early-Career Researcher/PhD Student
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Indonesia 

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Dr Azira Muhamad
Senior Scientist
National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia
Malaysia

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Dr Hoai Thu Nguyen Mong
Medical Doctor
Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam

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Professor Farah Naz Qamar
Professor, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Associate Dean, Research
Aga Khan University
Pakistan

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Dr Mohammed Tahir Yousafzai
Assistant Professor
Aga Khan University
Pakistan

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Recipients from Oceania

Mr Fulgence Niyibitegeka
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Australia 

Dr Jessica Rooke
Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Queensland
Australia 

Recipients from South America

Mr Vitor Alves
PhD Student
Instituto Butantan/University of São Paulo and an ongoing exchange in the University of Oxford
Brazil

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