The AE-TBC consortium was awarded the Outstanding Research Team Prize at the EDCTP Forum 2021

We are delighted to announce that the AE-TBC consortium was awarded the Outstanding Research Team Prize at the EDCTP Forum 2021 on October 21. We have had the pleasure of working with this team of talented and motivated researchers from across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe in different capacities in AE-TBC, ScreenTB and TriageTB.

Our ongoing project TriageTB builds on research conducted in two previous EDCTP-funded studies, AE-TBC and ScreenTB. All three projects have focused on investigating the use of host biosignatures to develop a point-of-care triage test for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB). Such a test is now being field-validated by the TriageTB consortium.

In the context of the three projects, many consortium members have been collaborating for over a decade. We have had the pleasure of working with this team of talented and motivated researchers from across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe in different capacities in AE-TBC, ScreenTB and TriageTB. Today, we are delighted to announce that the AE-TBC consortium received the Outstanding Research Team Prize at the virtual EDCTP Forum 2021. 

Each year, the EDCTP awards the prize to outstanding research teams in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe working on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and neglected infectious diseases (NID) in the scope of the EDCTP2 Programme.

“The award means a lot to us because it acknowledges the hard work all the project partners did over many years. I think the success of AE-TBC shows that African institutions can lead international research effectively, that long-term relationship between individuals in different institutions across the globe, and in this case across Africa, is very important,” says Prof Gerhard Walzl of Stellenbosch University, Coordinator of AE-TBC, ScreenTB and TriageTB in a video by the EDCTP.

Watch the 3-minute video for a rundown of AE-TBC project and what this prize means for all collaborators below.