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TAKeOFF Annual Meeting 2024 in Munich- Germany
The TAKeOFF research team held its annual meeting this year in Munich. The meeting, attended by all the country PI’s and representatives from DLR. The annual meeting held as a hybrid, enabled TAKeOFF students and other research team members to participate and be up to date with what the other partners were doing. The meeting which will run for 4 days, will include updates from all the partners on the status of the research tasks and both upcoming and published publications.
Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Alexander Yaw Debrah
“Eliminating Filarial Diseases: A New Hope for an Old Battle”
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of infectious diseases that affect about 1.3 billion people in the world but are mainly prevalent in tropical or sub-tropical areas. They thrive among people living in impoverished communities. There are about 20 of NTDs across the world but mainly in hard-to-reach areas of Asia, Latin America and Africa. NTDs are mainly caused by organisms such as parasites... Continue reading
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The Search for New Treatments Against Filariasis
