Around 12 million children under the age of five are hospitalised with chest infections such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis each year, a global study suggests.

Dr Anna Roca (Epidemiologist) and Professor Beate Kampmann (Theme Leader: Vaccinology) have secured significant funding from Pfizer for a Phase III clinical trial.

Professor Beate Kampmann (Theme Leader – Vaccinology) and colleagues have recently won a five-year MRC programme grant to develop a novel “toolbox” for the understanding of childhood TB by integrat

Maintenance of biomedical equipment is largely underfunded and given little priority in West Africa.  In many research and health facilities in the region, there is an abundance of expensive equipm

Dr Martin Ota, Clinical Immunologist/Vaccinologist (MRC Unit The Gambia) has been awarded this year’s Royal Society Pfizer Exceptional Merit Award.  His studies are targeted at biomarker discoverie

The Gambia is a leader in elimination research on several important diseases including malaria and trachoma, and The Unit's Disease Control & Elimination Theme has been working for the pas

Faster, more accurate data management: every researcher’s wish.  Now a new system being piloted in the malaria research lab at MRC Unit The Gambia promises just that.

The West African Health Organization (WAHO), the health agency of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) offers one year scholarships to individuals from its member states.

In a ceremony attended by senior representatives of the Waters Corporation, Imperial College London, The Gambia Government and the MRC Unit The Gambia, a Waters Xevo TQ MS mass spectrometer was don

Epidemiologist http://www.mrc.gm/about-us/people/anna-roca has won two major grants recently (

The West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM) is now in its third year.

The Unit’s revitalised scientific strategy was showcased at a  on Wednesday 11th January 2012 in The Gambia.