We are happy to announce that registration for this year's WACCBIP Research Conference, which will be held from July 18-20, 2018, is open.

A delegation from the Centre of Experimental Medicine (CEM) at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has visited the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) as part of arrangements to establish a collaborative research partnership between the two Centres.

WACCBIP is pleased to announce that the Crick African Network is accepting applications for the African Career Accelerator Awards, which will provide Fellowship support for African Post-Doctoral researchers aiming to make the transition to becoming an independent researcher and launching their own research group.

The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) is organizing the third in the series of annual research conferences to provide a platform for graduate students of the Centre to present their research work to a wide audience.

This week's student spotlight is Cynthia Mmalebna Amisigo, a final year MPhil student with the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP). Cynthia is driven by the passion to positively change the world with her research, which is to eradicate African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT), a parasitic disease that causes economic losses in livestock.

This week's Student Spotlight shines on Daniel Awudu Kwadwo Aquah, a final year MPhil student. For Daniel, being in the Cell Biology and Immunology Laboratory is an extra commitment that he considers not only a good preparation for his research career, but also a solid platform for learning how to communicate his research activities to the public.

As part of its activities under the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) partnership, the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) on Friday, February 23, 2018, visited the Ewim community in the Central Region of Ghana, to discuss malaria prevention, treatment, and control.

Growing up, Prince Berko Nyarko could have chosen a career in either sports or science; he chose science. Now an MPhil student with WACCBIP, Prince Berko is getting closer to his dream of eradicating malaria by working with other scientists at the Cell Biology, and Immunology Laboratory, under the mentorship of Professor Gordon Awandare, towards developing a vaccine for the disease.

Researchers from the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) have trained biomedical scientists from the National Catholic Health Centre (NCHS) at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Ghana.

The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) has hosted scientists from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the TrypTag team from the Dunn School of Pathology of the University of Oxford for the third WACCBIP-ASCB-Oxford workshop, which was held from January 17, 2018 to January 26, 2018, at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology (BCMB).

The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) is pleased to announce three open PhD fellowship positions for the 2018-2019 enrollment; two in Host-Pathogen Interactions (offered in partnership with the University of Copenhagen), and another in Human Genetics (offered in partnership with the University of Cape Town).

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The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) will, from Monday, 29^th January to Friday, 2^nd February 2018, host a training workshop for biomedical scientists from Catholic health centres in Ghana at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Ghana.

The Malaria Research Capacity Development (MARCAD) consortium is offering a fully funded three-year PhD fellowship at the University for Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho. The position is open to nationals of any African country, who would normally be resident in West or Central Africa.

“WACCBIP has been an important launch in my career. With the experience I have gained, I am confident that I can make lasting impacts in any field in my career as an accountant”

Researchers at the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) have held a one-day training programme aimed at equipping health workers with the requisite skills to identify and manage Buruli ulcer cases.

The KEMRI Wellcome Trust, a DELTAS Africa programme, is looking for an experienced post-doctoral social scientist who will develop and run a programme of work around the social science and ethics of research involving Controlled Human Infection Models, in which researchers expose participants in a controlled way to specific disease pathogens to study processes of infection and immunity.

As part of the WACCBIP-DELTAS programme, the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) organised its second Bioethics Training Workshop for postdoctoral fellows and stakeholders from institutions across the West African sub-region, with support from the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC) at the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB).