Successful applications 1999

In 1999, seven awards totalling £12 million were made, supporting research in countries throughout Africa, and Central and South America. These programmes cover some of the major killers in the developing world, including tuberculosis, measles, hepatitis C virus and sexually transmitted diseases.

Principal applicant: Professor G T Strickland, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Programme: Evaluation of protective, disease-associated and therapeutic immunity to hepatitis C virus infection
Main location of research: Egypt

Principal applicant: Dr P M Small, Stanford University, CA, USA
Programme: Population pathogenesis of tuberculosis
Main location of research: Mexico

Principal applicant: Professor D C W Mabey, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Programme: Strategies for the control of blinding trachoma
Main location of research: The Gambia and Tanzania

Principal applicant: Professor M Levin, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
Programme: Childhood tuberculosis: identification of the molecular immunological basis of susceptibility and resistance to mycobacterial infection
Main location of research: South Africa

Principal applicant: Dr F T Cutts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Programme: Impact of HIV on measles and measles immunisation
Main location of research: Zambia

Principal applicant: Professor K K Holmes, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Programme: Urban community randomisation trial of sexually transmitted diseases prevention
Main location of research: Peru

Principal applicant: Professor N G Saravia, CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia
Programme: Clinical response and resistance to antimonial drugs in Leishmania
Main location of research: Colombia