Robert E. Shope International Fellowship 

The Fellowship provides $25,000 in support for international training opportunities in arbovirology and emerging diseases for those with an MD, DVM, PhD or the equivalent. Recipients inspired by Dr. Shope will involve themselves in studies of arbovirology and/ or emerging diseases from clinical to field to laboratory studies.This award provides support for a short-term research experience in the tropics in the area of arbovirology and/or emerging diseases.

2024

 
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Kara Fikrig, Cornell University
"Uncovering the History of Dengue Transmission in Remote Communities
of the Peruvian Amazon"
 
 

 Overseas Location
  Peru
   

2023

 
Kristin Sloyer, University of Texas Medical Branch, United States 
"Islands in the Stream: Impact of Flood-Induced Landscape Changes on Mosquito Community Composition in the Brazilian Pantanal, with Implications for Arbovirus Transmission."
 
Overseas Location
Brazil
   

2022

 
Albert To, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States 
"Establishing the Spatial Distribution of Circulating Arboviruses in Urban and Rural Liberia"


Overseas location
Liberia
 
   

2021

 
Keli Gerken, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States 
"Urban Rift Valley Fever Virus as a New Ecological Niche: Continuous Introductions from Animal Products" 

Overseas location
Kenya
   

2020

 
Maria Onyango, New York State Department of Health, United States 
"Developing Aedes aegypti saliva barcodes as a risk assessment tool for Dengue outbreaks in Kenya"  

Overseas location
Kenya
   

2019

 
Anna Fagre, Colorado State University, United States 
"Characterizing the prevalence and geographic distribution of arboviruses in bat-associated ticks and ectoparasites in Uganda"  

Overseas location
Uganda
   

2018

 
Cameron Myhrvold, Broad Institute, United States 
"Establishing CRISPR-based diagnostics for arboviruses in Honduras"  

 
Overseas location
Honduras

2017

 
 

Amy Krystosik, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
"Field test of Miniaturized Automated Whole Blood Cellular Analysis System to Assess Immunity to Arboviruses in Msambweni, Kenya"


  
Overseas location
Kenya
   

2016

 
Kayla Barnes, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States
"Untangling the Genetic Diversity of Zika Virus"
 

  
Overseas location
Brazil
 
   

2015

 
   Claire Heath, Stanford University, United States
"Characterization of Immune Factors of Chronic Chikungunya Disease"
 
 
Overseas location
Grenada
   

2013

 
  Jesse Waggoner, Stanford University, United States
"
Multiplex Arbovirus Detection in Febrile Patients"
 
 
Overseas location
Zimbabwe
   

2012

 
  Gillian Eastwood, Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, United States
"
The Effect of Land-Use on the Distribution and Enzootic Cycling of Mosquito-borne Viruses"

 
Overseas location
Panama
   

2011

 
    Jonathan Auguste, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
"Isolation, molecular characterization and phylodynamic analysis of sylvatic mosquito-borne viruses in Trinidad and the wider Americas"

 
Overseas location
Trinidad

2010
Sarah Billeter, CDC, United States
Steven Hatch, University of Massachusetts, United States

2009
Andrew Haddow, University of Texas Medical Branch, United States
Sansanee Noisakran, Emory University, United States

2008
Desiree LaBeaud, Case Western Reserve University, United States

2007
Rebekah Kent, CDC, United States

2006
Christine Hice, University of New Mexico, United States

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