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Death of Dr. Donald Krogstad: A great loss for the USA and Mali!
We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Dr. Donald Krogstad Friday 14 August in Florida, USA. Dr. Krogstad has been of tremendous support to Mali since the beginning of the MRTC program in collaboration with Pr. Ogobara Doumbo and Pr. Yeya Toure. Through this collaboration more than a dozen of Malians scientists has been trained at Tulane University…
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CSCOM of Dangassa: The ICEMR-Mali program donates analytical laboratory equipments
The International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) program in Mali donated a large number of laboratory medical equipment to the Dangassa Community Health Center in the Koulikoro region. estimated at 5 million CFA francs, the donation will improve patient care. It was Saturday June 13, 2020 at the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC). read french version….
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Fight against Covid-19: 90% of samples are diagnosed at UCRC
Covid-19 samples in the BSL-3 The US Ambassador to Mali, Dennis B. Hankins, and the Minister of National Education, Scientific Research and Higher Education, Professor Mahamadou Famanta had a guided tour to the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC) . The UCRC is part of the International Center for Excellence in Research (ICER Mali), a collaboration between NIH and the University…
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Fight against Covid-19: Minister Famanta was overjoyed to see the work done by the UCRC-Mali
This Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at the Faculty of Medicine – The Minister of National and Higher Education, Professor Mahamadou Famanta visited the UCRC (University Clinical Research Center) laboratory. He had with him the United States Ambassador to Mali, His Excellency Dennis Hankins. UCRC-Mali has a BSL-3 responsible for inactivating the virus before diagnosis (rendering the virus harmless), a molecular…
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Prime Minister Dr. Boubou CISSE at the UCRC laboratory: “Here, I saw excellence in all its dimensions. It is better to see once than to hear a thousand times.”
Dr. Boubou CISSE, visiting UCRC-Lab As part of the prevention and response to the coronavirus epidemic, Prime Minister Dr Boubou CISSE visited the laboratories of the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC-Mali), on Saturday, March 14th, 2020, to see the “capabilities of “diagnosis” of coronavirus disease. “Visiting this research laboratory that I had heard a lot about is a great pride.…
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Prevention and response to the CORONAVIRUS epidemic: Michel Hamala SIDIBE at the UCRC Lab
As part of the prevention and response to the coronavirus epidemic, the Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Michel Hamala SIDIBE was at the laboratories of the UCRC-Mali, on tuesday March 10, 2020. The UCRC-mali is the University Clinical Research Center of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB). This visit, which concerned the Biosafety Level 3…
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3rd annual meeting of WANETAM Network: Make the autopsy of clinical research
Bamako hosted from 05 to 07 February 2020, the 3rd annual meeting of the West African Network for Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria / West African Network for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM). “Empowering African clinical research institutions through capacity building”. This was the theme of the 3rd annual meeting of the West African Network for Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria. The…
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PREVAC-UP: The Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccination extends follow-up and builds research capacity against deadly disease
PREVAC – Landréah Conakry vaccination centre. Credits : Inserm/Delapierre, Patrick Public health efforts successfully stopped human-to-human transmission of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2016 after the worst Ebola outbreak in history. However, the threat of the disease is still real, as the recent Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have shown. Thus, pursuing and intensifying efforts…
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2nd edition of the open day in medical entomology: His Excellency Dennis Hankins congratulates the Malian researchers
Dennis Hankins looking into the microscope On Thursday December 19, 2019, the United States Ambassador to Mali, Dennis Hankins participated in the 2nd edition of the open day in medical entomology, at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB) at Point-G. The objective of this open day on medical entomology…
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UCRC: A Chinese delegation visits the laboratories
A delegation from the TIANJIN Professional Higher School of Medicine and the TIANJIN Hongxing Professional Secondary School in China visited the UCRC laboratories on thursday, December 19, 2019. The visit, led by Dr. Bassirou Diarra, chief of the UCRC BSL-3 and Mr. Cheick Oumar TANGARA, UCRC Program manager aimed to inquire about the activities carried out by the laboratories, with…
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