In January 2011, Dr Assan Jaye is being seconded to Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar.Assan Jaye graduated as a Veterinarian in 1988 from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria.

The largest ever clinical trial in patients hospitalised with severe malaria has concluded that the drug artesunate should now be the preferred treatment for the disease in both children and adults

Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, Interim Principal Investigator, explains the terms and expectations of the Award The award The Global Fund changed the way countries could apply for grants for Round 9, calling

A $15 million award has been made by the Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria to the National Leprosy & TB Control Programme (Ministry of Health) and MRC (UK) The Gambia as co-principal

MenAfriVac™, a vaccine developed through the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) to protect against life-threatening meningococcal meningitis, received prequalification from the World Health Organizat

The elimination of an infectious disease is a once in a career, nay lifetime, happening for most medical researchers.

On Thursday 29th April 2010, Sukuta Health Centre opened its doors to the community and other key stakeholders in a programme themed ‘Working Together with the Community: Novel Vaccine Studies’.The

Vaccines are known to be a cheap, safe and effective method of saving lives.

Recently, Dr Assan Jaye received the welcome news that he, together with colleagues from Dakar and Bissau, won a 1.8 million Canadian dollar capacity building grant from the Global Health Research

Friday 12th February 2010 marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the long-standing partnership between the Medical Research Council and the University of The Gambia.

The MRC unit in The Gambia has outlined new plans for the next five years, which will include focusing its science on three new themed areas: Child Survival, Disease Control and Elimination, and

Every 15 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies of pneumonia.