Our blog includes news from LINQ, information about recent events in the projects we work with, and insights into the markets and funding programmes relevant to our projects.
MARC SE-Africa digital health tools featured in Nature Africa
Digital innovations from the MARC SE-Africa project - Antimalarial resistance dashboard and MOXIE-BOT - have been featured in last week’s African research Editors’ Picks in Nature Africa. This recognition spotlights the tools' instrumental role in enhancing malaria surveillance and response across Southern and Eastern Africa, regions that together bear the highest global burden of malaria.
The 2025 Global Health EDCTP3 calls for proposals are now open for submission, making available 214 million EUR in funding across a broad scope of topics. The LINQ team is looking forward to supporting existing and new partners with their new initiatives.
Annual meeting brings WORMVACS2.0 partners to Berlin
On 28 and 29 October, WORMVACS2.0 partners met in Berlin for an annual meeting. With most partners from four continents joining in person and a few online, the hybrid meeting was full of lively, forward-looking discussions on the next steps in building knowledge on helminth vaccine development.
On October 14, the WHO published its Global Tuberculosis Report 2021. The report shows how TB milestones and targets have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The EDCTP and AIGHD launched a global Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine research and development roadmap at the Virtual Global Forum on TB Vaccines on April 20, 2021.
Cancer is on track to become the leading cause of death in the EU by 2035. To turn the tide against cancer, the European Commission launched Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan on the eve of World Cancer Day, February 3, 2021.
