News
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28 February 2013
Watch the MCDC Films
MCDC recently spent time filming in each of our African partner countries with the aim to produce 5 short films to demonstrate our work. The films were unveiled at the Wellcome Trust Panel Visit in KCMC, Tanzania last week and were well received by the panellists.
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28 February 2013
TB Short Course 2012-Photos
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26 February 2013
Seventh EDCTP Forum: Registration and call for abstracts now open
Today the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership opened the registration and call for abstracts for its Seventh EDCTP Forum. The Forum will be held in Dakar, Senegal on 20-23 October 2013. Its theme is The Partnership journey: New horizon for better health. EDCTP invites EDCTP grantees, public and private product research and development partners, and researchers involved in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to register online and submit their abstracts
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22 February 2013
Call for proposal
Medicine for Malaria Venture, Call for proposals
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13 February 2013
TEG Postgraduate Training Fellowship in Medical Statistics for African Scientists
This fellowship, which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), provides support for two years training in medical statistics. For the first year the successful applicant will study for the MSc degree in Medical Statistics at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (LSHTM). This will be followed by a one-year professional attachment at one of the African centres associated with the research programme of the Tropical Epidemiology Group (TEG) at LSHTM. During the professional attachment, training Fellows will develop their statistical and research skills by working on studies with guidance from TEG staff.
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13 February 2013
EDCTP info sharing: Wellcome Trust Public Health and Tropical Medicine Fellowship schemes
We are inviting promising researchers tackling research that aims to understand and control diseases affecting human or animal health to apply for Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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12 February 2013
Building Stronger Universities (BSU) Training of Trainers (ToT) course in PhD supervision held on 29th January – 1st February 2013
The course organized by KCMC and participants from KCMC, UDSM, SUA, NIMR attended.
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11 February 2013
MSc. SCHOLARSHIP
The Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute in collaboration with University of Virginia invites application for scholarship in pursuing Masters in either Clinical Research (CR) or Microbiology Immunology with Molecular Biology (MIM). 1 position will be offered.
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06 February 2013
Training program for people interested in becoming DSMB members
Fellows who successfully complete the course will be qualified to serve on a Data and Safety Monitoring Board in 2013 for clinical trials funded by Pharmaceutical, PDP (Product Development Partnership Organizations) or Government sponsors They will also be eligible to be selected for additional DSMBs constituted for trials that involve the fellow’s country of residence. Additionally, the training would provide the opportunity to serve on the fellows’ institutional DSMB post-‐training and potentially train others in their institution.
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06 February 2013
EDCTP Info Sharing : PhD program in International Health
PhD-Program is open to anyone sharing the interest in health-related issues in the field of development cooperation. Therefore we encourage all professionals of any nationality to become part of the CIHLMU-PhD-Program, people working in the field of health or in health related areas, that are willing to improve local research and health situations both through manpower and knowledge.
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31 January 2013
Makerere/UVRI Infection and Immunity Research Training Programme
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10 January 2013
FIRST POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
The MCDC1 proposal contained provision for about 10 ‘re-entry’, first post-doctoral, fellowships of a value of up to $150,000 open to successful MCDC PhD students on a competitive basis, along the lines adopted for the GMP programme. The form that these awards might take was considered at a meeting of the MCDC Steering Committee in London in May 2012 and again extensively by both the MCDC Steering and Advisory Committees during the MCDC meeting held in Atlanta in November 2012.