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World Malaria Day – What would you fight for?
April 24, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, marks World Malaria Day. Notre Dame scientists from the Eck Institute for Global Health and colleagues from around the world are trying to address this disease. Though malaria might not necessarily be “in your back yard,” the answers just might be!
Eck Institute for Global Health joins AMPATH Consortium
April 23, 2012
The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health is now a full member of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Consortium, led by Indiana University ...
Ecological Genomics of Anopheles gambiae Along a Latitudinal Cline: A Population-Resequencing Approach
April 10, 2012
Changde Cheng, a former fellow of the Eck Institute for Global Health, was chosen for the April 2012 cover issue of Genetics and highlighted by the editors with commentary by Mark Kirkpatrick ...
Researchers using novel method to combat malaria drug resistance
April 05, 2012
Congratulations to Mike Ferdig, John Tan, and doctoral student, Becky Miller, for their manuscript being published in the journal Science. Well deserved recognition for new innovations to fight against malaria.
Engineering faculty receive CAREER Awards
April 05, 2012
The Eck Institute for Global Health joins the College of Engineering to congratulate Dr. Philippe Sucosky on his prestigious 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Dr. Sucosky is a faculty member of the Eck Institute and the faculty advisor of PhD student Ling Sun, a Global Health Fellow working on “The Role of Hemodynamic Shear Stress in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease"
Eck Institute Director and Member Meet with Carter Center VP
April 03, 2012
EIGH director David Severson joined EIGH member Fr. Tom Streit for dinner with Dr. Donald Hopkins before Hopkins presented "Building Hope and Fighting Disease at the Grassroots: Focus on Disease Eradication and Elimination" on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
Shrout named Associate Advisor to Science Translational Medicine journal
March 26, 2012
Joshua Shrout, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, was recently named a 2012 Associate Advisor to Science Translational Medicine, a sister journal of Science. http://stm.sciencemag.org/…
New paper examines poison resistance in snakes around the world
March 16, 2012
A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Michael Pfrender and a team of researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno; Utah State University; and the University of Virginia suggests that snakes from different regions of the world have evolved a similar, remarkable resistance to a deadly neurotoxin.
Team of scientists wins grant to research tuberculosis diagnostics
March 02, 2012
University of Notre Dame Professor Jeff Schorey, associate director of the Eck Institute for Global Health and a member of the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, is part of a team of researchers who received one of 10 new Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) Grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify biomarkers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).
Do you have your red on?
February 03, 2012
It is heart month and a member of the The Eck Institute for Global Health is looking at the heart from the inside out. EIGH PhD Fellow Ling Sun is looking at the mechanobiological elucidation of heart valve disease ...
