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Dr. Bénédicte Contamin, Fondation Mérieux’s leading figure in Madagascar, passes away
August 24, 2015, Lyon (France)
Fondation Mérieux mourns the loss of Dr. Bénédicte Contamin, its regional director for the Indian Ocean, based in Madagascar for ...
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BAMS Haiti and Mali graduating classes 2014-2015
July 22, 2015, Bamako (Mali) & Port-au-Prince (Haïti)
18 students from BAMS Haiti and 25 students from BAMS Mali celebrated their graduation from the 2014-2015 course.
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ADVAC 16: Evolving, adapting and progressing
July 8, 2015, Les Pensières, Annecy (France)
Fondation Mérieux held its 16th annual Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC) at the Les Pensières Conference Centre May 11 – ...
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Beyond Efficacy meeting looks at public health impact of vaccines
July 2, 2015, Les Pensières, Annecy (France)
The meeting Beyond Efficacy: The full public health impact of vaccines in addition to efficacy measured in trials, was organized ...
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Success of LABOMEDCAMP Project
June 22, 2015, Bamako (Mali)
10 1st-line laboratories installed in Malian community health centers will give populations access to reliable and rapid diagnosis.
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Off-target effects of vaccination meeting
June 11, 2015, Les Pensières, Annecy (France)
Fondation Mérieux organized a meeting about the off-target (heterologous/non-specific) effects of vaccination June 8-10 at Les Pensières conference center, Veyrier-du-Lac, ...
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WARDS: Building on RESAOLAB’s success in training for ECOWAS
June 5, 2015, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
The West African Regional Disease Surveillance Capacity Strengthening (WARDS) project’s objective is to strengthen the regional disease surveillance and response ...
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The P4 Jean Mérieux-Inserm Laboratory expands making it one of the largest facilities in the World
May 18, 2015, Lyon (France)
The extension of the P4 Jean Mérieux-Inserm Laboratory in Lyon was inaugurated on Monday, May 11th, by French Prime Minister ...
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RESAOLAB
Guinea will have a new center for its Laboratory Division, built as part of the RESAOLAB program
May 12, 2015, Donka (Guinea)
The center strengthens capacities for infectious disease prevention 7 West African countries establish harmonized laboratory policies and a coordinated response ...
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Learning from Ebola: research funders plan for future outbreaks
May 7, 2015, Cape Town (South Africa)
Research funding organisations from 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America worked together at a meeting of ...
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3rd Middle East and Eastern Europe Rabies Expert Bureau Meeting
April 23, 2015, Lyon (France)
Fondation Mérieux organized the 3rd edition of the Middle East and Eastern Europe Rabies Expert Bureau (MEEREB) Meeting on April ...
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ARTS on infectious diseases: 4 PhD grants offered by Fondation Mérieux and IRD
April 14, 2015, Lyon (France)
A partnership between Fondation Mérieux and IRD offers up to 4 PhD grants for a period of 36 months as ...