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The effect of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine on vaccine-specific responses among schoolchildren in rural Uganda (POPVAC B) thelancet.com/journals/langl… MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit VAnguard Project Alison Elliott HypoVax Global Ludoviko Zirimenya

The effect of intensive praziquantel administration on vaccine-specific responses among schoolchildren in Ugandan schistosomiasis-endemic islands (POPVAC A) - The Lancet Global Health thelancet.com/journals/langl… MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit VAnguard Project Alison Elliott HypoVax Global Ludoviko Zirimenya

Schistosome and malaria exposure and urban–rural differences in vaccine responses in Uganda - The Lancet Global Health thelancet.com/journals/langl… MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit VAnguard Project Alison Elliott HypoVax Global Ludoviko Zirimenya

The effect of BCG revaccination on the response to unrelated vaccines in urban Ugandan adolescents (POPVAC C): an open-label, randomised controlled trial - The Lancet Global Health thelancet.com/journals/langl… MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit VAnguard Project Alison Elliott HypoVax Global Ludoviko Zirimenya

Key findings are out for the “Population differences in vaccine responses (POPVAC)” study of three linked, randomised controlled trials assessing the role, reversibility and mediators of immunomodulation by chronic infections

The Effect of Malaria on Responses to Unrelated Vaccines in Animals and Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis - Zirimenya - 2024 - Parasite Immunology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pi… Ludoviko Zirimenya HypoVax Global Alison Elliott MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit

Quite an epic edition of The Lancet Global Health with interesting findings from the POPVAC trials (conducted by colleagues in Uganda) that aimed to elucidate the drivers of vaccine-specific immune responses in urban and rural settings in Uganda Gyaviira Nkurunungi 🇺🇬👨🏾‍🔬, Alison Elliott Ludoviko Zirimenya MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit

The malaria vaccine is officially available on the UNEPI schedule

Welcome and congratulations to the eleven group leaders from India, Singapore, Taiwan and Uganda who join the EMBO Global Investigator Network! Read more: embo.org/press-releases… #lifesciences

Krishanpal Karmodiya IISER Pune, Prem Kaushal RCB, Yinghui Li NTU Singapore, Wei Ma NTU Singapore, Rajender Motiani RCB, Bhavana Muralidharan iBRIC-inStem, Gyaviira Nkurunungi 🇺🇬👨🏾‍🔬 MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit UVRI London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,

Excited to join the EMBO Global Investigator Network as its first African member! Alison Elliott MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit VAnguard Project EMBO embo.org/people/searchi…

“I hope I will strengthen my current collaborations and find new ones through the EMBO Global Investigator Network,” says Gyaviira Nkurunungi Gyaviira Nkurunungi 🇺🇬👨🏾‍🔬, new EMBO Global Investigator MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. Read more about him and his research: embo.org/people/searchi…

Congratulations to Professor Alison Elliott, Professor of Tropical Medicine, who has received an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Medicine and Global Health. Based at the Medical Research Council Unit at the Uganda Virus Research Institute.

Special Congratulations to Professor Alison Elliott, Professor of Tropical Medicine, who has received an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Medicine and Global Health. Based at the Medical Research Council Unit at the UVRI.

Low-Dose Yellow Fever Vaccine in Adults in Africa | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

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The Immune Response to Infection (Chapter 15) - Principles of Medicine in Africa - bit.ly/4l68fI2