Capacity development in priority areas

By working with our communities, we expect to enhance capacity development in priority areas.

Malcolm Molyneux: Building research capacity in Malawi
Malcolm Molyneux and colleagues have built international-standard clinical research facilities and training schemes in one of the world's most under-resourced countries - Malawi.
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Time well spent: The four-year PhD neuroscience programme at UCL
UCL's four-year PhD programme in the neurosciences has produced a cadre of highly successful scientists, and was awarded five years of further funding by the Trust in 2008.
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Shah Ebrahim: The epidemiology of chronic disease in Britain and India
Leading epidemiologist Shah Ebrahim has recently received a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award to apply his expertise in chronic diseases to capacity building for the management of non-communicable diseases such as mental illness, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases in India.
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A naturalist in the central nervous system
Dr Zoltan Nusser in Budapest is studying how sensory information is coded and transmitted in the olfactory pathway.
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Dr Vikram Patel: Public health aspects of mental health
Dr Vikram Patel is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow conducting pioneering research on the public health significance of mental health disorders in resource-poor settings.
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Unit for drug discovery in tropical diseases at Dundee
A group led by Professors Mike Ferguson and Alan Fairlamb has set up a drug discovery unit focused on neglected diseases such as African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease.
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