Former Director @KEMRI_Wellcome, now MMM at @NDMOxford. Medical researcher in vaccines, malaria epidemiology, microbiology & genomics.
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Philip Bejon retweeted
Congratulations to @wellcometrust sponsored Rinter Kimathi on a successful viva today. We produce quality #PhD students here 🥇 📜 @UofGlasgow @Paulgarside6 @scales_hannah @Fra_ndu @AndrewPWaters @BiottofnI @cowan_lab
Philip Bejon retweeted
We @KEMRI_Wellcome are thrilled to celebrate the renewal of our collaboration between @wellcometrust, @KEMRI_Kenya, and @UniofOxford and look forward to continuing to advance our mission to advance purposeful and impactful health research, and developing research capacity in the African region. We are super grateful to the @wellcometrust for committing to fund this collaboration with a GBP 90 million core award
Delighted to announce the renewal of the collaboration between @wellcometrust @KEMRI_Kenya and @UniofOxford with the signing of the 7-year Memorandum of Agreement. This is in support of discovery and mental health research, climate and health and the evaluation of Kenya's Universal Health coverage initiative at #KWTRP
Philip Bejon retweeted
Delighted to announce the renewal of the collaboration between @wellcometrust @KEMRI_Kenya and @UniofOxford with the signing of the 7-year Memorandum of Agreement. This is in support of discovery and mental health research, climate and health and the evaluation of Kenya's Universal Health coverage initiative at #KWTRP
Philip Bejon retweeted
Congratulations to the Postgraduate Diploma #ClassOf2024 graduates from @PU_Kilifi! We are proud of your success.
A big thank you to the exceptional supervisors at @KEMRI_Wellcome and our funding partners @SciforAfrica for making this journey possible.
Philip Bejon retweeted
Newly minted! DOCTOR PATRICK MWANGALA! CONGRATULATIONS! And to your supervisory team lead by Prof Amina Abubakar and Prof Charles Newton. Collaboration between IDeAL and ALMA growing strong @akuihd @KEMRI_Wellcome @IDeAL_KEMRI_WT
Compensatory evolution after evolving resistance well documented for bacteria and for malaria parasites - and I'm sure other instances - here described for candida auris as well.
Out now: Acquired amphotericin B resistance leads to fitness trade-offs that can be mitigated by compensatory evolution in Candida auris 🍄💊 @vandijcklab @CarolusHans @PatrickDijck
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Philip Bejon retweeted
The Sanger PrizeThe Sanger Prize - The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries sanger.ac.uk/about/study/the… #sangerinstitute
Philip Bejon retweeted
Research Highlight from Anthony Etyang @TonyEtyang @KEMRI_Wellcome
Prospective clinical surveillance for severe acute respiratory illness and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in Kenyan hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.c…
Philip Bejon retweeted
The top three pathogens, E. coli (24%), K. pneumoniae (8.7%) and S. aureus (8.5%) exhibited increasing prevalence and multidrug #resistance💊
Enhanced surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship are crucial for managing BSIs in Vietnam🇻🇳
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Philip Bejon retweeted
Research published last month in @npjAMR describes bloodstream infections within a Vietnamese infectious diseases hospital between 2010 and 2020 🇻🇳🦠
Check out this article in the link below!⤵️
@DuyPham_Oucru
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nature.com/articles/s44259-0…
Philip Bejon retweeted
READING TIP: Rethinking the Evidence on COVID in Africa - africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/han…
To submit your research & to learn more about our work, please visit africarxiv.org/
#ResearchinAfrica #OpenScience #OpenAccess
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Philip Bejon retweeted
Hearty congratulations are due our newly minted DOCTOR Nancy Mbeyu on the successful defence of your PhD thesis! And to your supervisors led by Prof Caroline Jones @IDeAL_KEMRI_WT @KEMRI_Wellcome @AlunIwanDavies @mbeyuwm
1/12 Here’s our review on Rethinking the Evidence on COVID in Africa. Thanks @Africarxiv for preprint. africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/han…. And a summary in a few tweets to follow. @wellcometrust funded work from @KEMRI_Wellcome
11/12 Pandemics are all different, this doesn’t help us predict outcomes for mpox, influenza or even other coronaviruses in Africa, but does warn us not to be complacent.
12/12 Policy in Africa needs to be guided by research in Africa. Investment in research centres in Africa pays returns. External models and external policy prescriptions less useful than real data. @JeremyFarrar @wellcometrust @KEMRI_Wellcome