Select Faculty Member Mark R. Brown Donald E. Champagne Daniel G. Colley Harry W. Dickerson, Jr. Roberto Docampo Stephen L. Hajduk Jessica Kissinger Patrick J. Lammie Kojo A. Mensa-Wilmot Julie M. Moore Silvia N.J. Moreno Ynes R. Ortega David S. Peterson Pejman Rohani Robert Sabatini Mike R. Strand Boris Striepen Rick L. Tarleton

I  The Ellison Medical Foundation/Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (EMF/CTEGD) Training Innovations in Parasitologic Studies (TIPS) Program

The EMF/CTEGD TIPS program is funded through the generosity of the Ellison Medical Foundation to provide international research training opportunities for UGA undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, and research training opportunities at UGA for advanced international trainees associated with CTEGD overseas research programs. This unique bi-directional research training grant will select trainees through competitive application processes and offers trainees at various levels of research expertise project-related training opportunities in international settings. More ...

II  NIH-funded Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Positions Available in Interdisciplinary Parasitology, Vector Biology, and Emerging Diseases

The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases at the University of Georgia has positions available on a newly funded NIH T32 Training Grant for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows interested in training in a collegial, highly interactive training program in interdisciplinary areas of parasitology, vector biology, and emerging infections. CTEGD is comprised of 15 faculty members active in the areas of genetic, bioinformatics, molecular, biochemical, and cell biologic and immunologic aspects of parasites or host/parasite relationships. The research systems available for study include malaria, cryptosporidiosis, cyclosporiasis, American and African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, and toxoplasmosis, Ichthyophthiius multifilis (Ich) of fish, parasitic insects, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, lymphatic filariasis, ecology of infectious diseases, and culicine, anopheline and ixodid vectors. More ...

III   KEMRI/JKUAT/ITROMID/UGA Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Training Program

The UGA/ITROMID training program is a joint effort of 3 institutions, set up to provide opportunities to highly selected ITROMID students who will train with KEMRI, JKUAT and University of Georgia (UGA) trainers, and receive their Ph.D. degrees through the ITROMID program. This funding support is provided through a D43 Training Grant mechanism from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health of the United States of America. Both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will be selected through a competitive process. All appointments will be on an annual basis contingent upon continued funding and satisfactory performance. In addition, this program will support highly qualified, junior scientists who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees. More ...