2024 Travel Awards and Funding

Posted 9 December 2024


Young Investigator Awards Results

Winners
• Alonso Cruz-Echevarria, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
• Abigail Goodship, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
• Chaney Kalinich, Yale School of Medicine, United States
• Michelle Martí, University of Pittsburgh, United States
• Chasity Trammell, Colorado State University, United States
• Sean Yanik, Johns Hopkins, United States
  
First-Tier Mentions
• Pedro Cecilio, National Institutes of Health, United States
• Elizabeth Fusco, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States
• Beatris Martin, The University of Queensland, United States
• Ijeoma Okoye, Drexel University College of Medicine, United States
• Millicent Opoku, La Trobe University, United States
• Andrew Teo, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
  
Honorable Mentions
• Afsana Afrin, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, Bangladesh
• Sean Connelly, University of North Caroline, United States
• Monica de Cola, Imperial College of London, United States
• Irina Diekmann, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
• Nguyen Vuong, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Viet Nam
• Anna Winnicki, Case Western Reserve University, United States 

ASTMH is grateful to Pfizer for the corporate sponsorship of the Young Investigator Award.

ACCTMTH Clinical Research Awards Results

First Place
Theresa Sepulveda, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
 
Second Place
Helen George, Bernhard Nocht Institut for Tropical Medicine, Germany
 
Third Place
Mary Ellen Owings, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, United States

ASTMH/Gates Foundation Annual Meeting Travel Awards 

  • Seth Offei Addo, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana
  • Athanase  Badolo, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso
  • Chrispus Musabe Bakunda, Makerere University Walter Reed Project, Uganda
  • Anne-Lise, Beaumont, Institut Pasteur, France
  • David Bermejo-Pelaez, Spotlab, Spain
  • Djelili Biaou, IRD, Benin
  • Bokretsion Gidey Brhane, Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Ethiopia
  • Junior Bulubula, National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) , DRC
  • Fátima Burgos, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales, Uganda
  • Paloma Carcamo, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
  • Joshua  Chevalier, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Ndey Fatou Drammeh, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia
  • Rolayo   Emmanuel, Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis Research, Nigeria
  • Kisakye Diana Kabbale, Infectious Disease Research Collaboration, Uganda
  • Abdul Khaleque Md. Dawlat Khan, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Bangladesh
  • Ayda Khorramnejad, University of Pavia, Italy
  • Francis  Kimani, Kenya Medical Research Institute- KEMRI, Kenya
  • Robert  Koch, Yale University, United States
  • Adriana Luchs, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Brazil
  • Gabriela Matamoros, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Honduras
  • Cristina Meehan, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), United States
  • Catherine Bakari Mvaa, National Institute for Medical Research, NIMR Tanzania, Tanzania
  • Kioko Mwikali, Open Univeristy, United Kingdom
  • Ijeoma  Okoye, Drexel University College of Medicine, United States
  • Rafeh Oualha, Institut Pasteur of Tunis, Tunis
  • Miguel Angel Pelaez, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires           
  • Pastor E                Pérez Estigarribia, Facultad Politécnica, Universidad Nacional de Asunción , Paraguay
  • Sachee Bhanu Piyasiri, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Suraj Singh Rawat, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
  • Maria Saeed, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Fatoumata Seck, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal
  • Dynang Seng, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Cambodia
  • Christopher Chikhosi, Stanley      Malaria Alert Centre, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences , Malawi
  • Fatalmoudou Tandina, Malaria Research and Training Center at University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies from Bamako (USTTB), Mali
  • Nelly Manuela Tchatchoua Tatchou, University of Buea, Cameroon
  • Naomi Waithira, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
  • Audrey Walker, Colorado State University, United States
  • Kalani Williams, Colorado State University, United States
  • Farzana Zaman, National TB Control Program, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Bangladesh
  • Jose Zambrana Madriz, University of Michigan, United States

Subgroup Travel Awards

ACAV
• Reem Alatrash, Rutgers University, United States 
• Shelby Cagle, Colorado State University, United States
• Felicity Coulter, Oregon Health and Science University, United States 
• Jeffrey Marano, Colorado State University, United States 
• Chasity Trammell, Colorado State University, United States
• Whitney Weber, Oregon Health and Science University, United States 
• Emily Mantlo, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States 

ACGH
• Grace Mzumara, Training Research Unit of Excellence, Malawi 
• Ogechukwu Aribodor, Department of Zoology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria 

ACME Graduate
• Juliana Hoyos, University of Georgia, United States 
• Stephen Opoku Afriyie, Texas Tech University, United States 

ACME International
• Millicent Opoku, LaTrobe University, Australia 
• Mercy Tuwei, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya 

ACME Postdoc
• Rose-Margarita Gelvez Ramirez, Centro de Atención y Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Colombia 

ACMCIP LMIC Award
• Lionel Brice Feugack Donfack, Institut Pasteur of Cambodia, Cambodia
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