Brain Infections Group

Collaborations

International Collaborations

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi (since 2003)
  • University of Oxford-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Unit, Centre for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City (since 1994)
  • Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), Bangkok, Thailand (since 1994)
  • Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia (since 1997)
  • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas (since 2001)
  • JE Program at PATH (Since 2001)
  • The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme,College of Medicine, University of Malawi (since 2003)
  • National Institute for Mental Health and Neurological Science (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India (since 2004)
  • Programme for Applied Technology in Health (PATH) Seattle (since 2003)
  • National Institute for Mental Health and Neurological Science (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India (since 2004)
  • University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, Carolina, USA (since 2007)
  • Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia (Marc Fischer, Susan Hills, Japanese encephalitis control, since 2008)
  • Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA (Monique Stins; an in vitro model of the blood brain barrier; since 2009)
  • Neuroinflammation Research Unit, Lerner Institute, Cleveland (Richard Ransohoff, blood brain barrier model since 2009)
  • Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Vijaya Satchidanandam, Immunology of Japanese encephalitis, since 2010).
  • Washington University, St Louis (David Wang and Mike Diamond), Pathogen discovery and Flavivirus epitope mapping since 2009

UK Collaborations

  • Clinical Virology Unit, Medical Microbiology, University of Manchester, UK (since 2002)
  • Rabies and Wildlife Zoonoses Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency(Weybridge), Surrey, UK (since 2002)
  • Health Protection Agency (HPA), Colindale, London (since 2003)
  • The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (CIGMR), University of Manchester, UK (since 2005)
  • Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford (since 2005)
  • Department of Neuropathology, University of Oxford (since 2005)
  • Special Pathogens Reference Unit , Health Protection Agency, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down (since 2008)
  • Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford (Prof Paul Klenerman, Immunology of Japanese encephalitis, since 2009)
  • Department of Veterinary Pathology; Dr Anja Kipar: Neuropathology in the mouse model of Japanese encephalitis
  • Clinical Research Group, School of Tropical Medicine; Profs Heyderman, Malcolm Molyneux and others: Central Nervous System Infections in Malawi
  • Vector Research Group, School of Tropical Medicine; Prof Mike Lehane: Vector biology of arbovirus infections
  • LUCINDA (Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals Group), Prof Matthew Baylis, Veterinary Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Effect of Climate on Spread of Japanese encephalitis
  • Molecular Biochemical Parasitology , Professor Alister Craig (Vascular endothelium and blood brain barrier model, since 2009

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