S3E4: Innovation and hope
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
Transmission · Veerle Vanlerberghe, Halidou Tinto, Francesca Falconi, Jakke Van Den Abbeele, Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Ruth Müller
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Show Notes
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.
This episode features:
- Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
- Anna Rosanas-Urgell, parasitologist and malariologist, Head of the Unit of Malariology (ITM)
- Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
- Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
- Halidou Tinto, ITM alumnus, parasitologist and Head of Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro in Burkina Faso
- Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru
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To learn more about ITM's research on disease elimination, visit www.itg.be/en/research/disease-elimination
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