Call for Proposals Senior Fellowship Programme
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The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
(EDCTP)
The EDCTP is an initiative by European Union Member States and
Norway to reinforce research into the development of new clini-
cal interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. To
this end, a partnership with the developing countries (DCs), in
particular in sub-Saharan Africa, has been established. The
Partnership Board (PB) consists of 12 European and African sci-
entists who will oversee the scientific aspects.
To address the mission of the EDCTP, the focus of supported ac-
tivities will be on accelerating the clinical evaluation of can-
didate new interventions, including: conducting controlled tri-
als of the highest quality of new and improved drugs and vac-
cines against the target diseases, and increasing the capacity
of scientists and institutions in the DCs to undertake such tri-
als. EDCTP supported interventions should be made available at a
price that allows their widespread use in the DCs.
A major objective ensuing from the mission of the EDCTP is to
encourage and facilitate networking and coordination of clinical
trial activities on the target diseases within Europe and, pri-
marily, sub-Saharan Africa, and importantly between scientists
in these two regions.
The EDCTP calls for African researchers to react on our Call for
Proposals for Senior Fellowships.
Through this call, the EDCTP intends to identify and support
senior researchers capable of building up teams in African in-
stitutions that will be internationally competitive and capable
of winning grants from international funding bodies for research
on the three major poverty-related diseases in Africa (HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria).
The EDCTP Fellow will undertake applied research in clinical
trials related disciplines such as epidemiology, clinical medi-
cine, virology, immunology, parasitology, pharmacology and mo-
lecular biology.
The deadline for receipt of completed applications is 25
June2004.
For more information on this call and application form, I kindly
refer you to our web site:
http://www.edctp.org
Dr. P. Olliaro
Executive Director EDCTP