The National Public Health Laboratories (NPHL) have commenced testing for COVID-19 in The Gambia. The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is proud to have supported the process of setting up the laboratories for testing, including the provision of equipment, the calibration and certification of tools, […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine extends condolences to the families and friends of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Gambian Momodou Lamin Sisay and others, who died as a result of police brutality in the United States of America. We stand in solidarity with all those […]
The Genomics Team at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has successfully completed a study which generated Whole Genome data to determine the origin and pattern of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from the first six cases tested in The Gambia. The results of the study, published […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM has received donations from R&R Laundry Services and Alieu Momar Njai, to support the Unit’s COVID-19 response. R&R Laundry Services donated 30 single flat bed sheets, 50 pillowcases, 13 single wool blankets, 20 waterproof mattress protectors and 1000 woven disposable hats. As the Unit’s Laundry Service […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine donated items from the recently ended Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Studies (GHIS) to the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) Liver Clinic. The GHIS studies started in 1986 with the introduction of the hepatitis vaccine to Gambian children. At the […]
Dr Sophie Moore, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM and Reader at King’s College London has been awarded a 5-year Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to study micronutrient interventions to improve infant neurocognitive development and growth in early infancy. Undernutrition during the early years of life […]
Translating lab experiments of mosquito growth in a spatial context can help us predict the increasing risk of spreading infectious diseases. This is the story of climate change’s impact on the expansion of an emerging zoonotic disease-vector: Aedes aegypti. In 2020, while our collective lockdown at home due to COVID-19 places a much needed spotlight […]
We are pleased to share the full webinar programme for World Immunization Week 2020 with you – you can access the event pages here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/series/vaccine-centre or get an overview of the programme on the VaC website here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2020/world-immunization-week-2020 The programme poster is also attached. We are marking WIW 2020 with the theme #VaccinesWorkforAll by looking […]
Dr Anna Roca, Deputy Leader of the Disease Control and Elimination Theme of the MRC Unit The Gambia has been awarded the title of Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Umberto D’Alessandro, MRCG at LSHTM Unit Director said, “I would like to congratulate Anna for her nomination as Professor of […]
The MRCG at LSHTM Genomics Core Facility has become the first and only service provider for the Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT), GridION platform after attaining the standard requirements by ONT, following an intensive training of the Genomics team in 2019. The lab has recently demonstrated proficiency with the running of the GridION, a third-generation sequencing […]
Researchers at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have collaborated with the Ministry of Health of The Gambia to examine the implications of COVID-19 on West Africa. The commentary, published in Lancet Global Health shows that a rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases […]
Dr Ousman Secka, Manager of the Microbiology Labs at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been appointed as Country Ambassador for the American Society of Microbiology (ASM). The ASM is the oldest and largest single life science society in the world and sets out […]