<noframes> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title></title> <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <ul id="id5f" class="module_ul"> <li id="id66"> <div class="EventDescriptionDisplayPanel" id="id67"> <div id="EventDescriptionPanel" class="panelHeader"> <h3 class="panelDragHandle"> <span> Challenges in Malaria Research </span> </h3> </div> <div id="id68"> </div> <div id="id69" class="panelContent"> <div id="id6a" class="descriptionPanel"> <div id="id6b"><p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>BioMed Central, in conjunction with its journals <em>Malaria Journal </em>and <em>Parasites & Vectors, </em>is hosting the second malaria conference "Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress Towards Elimination" in Basel, Switzerland </span><span>from 10 – 12 October 2012.</span><br> <br> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>Following the success of the inaugural malaria conference in 2010, entitled "Parasite to Prevention: Advances in the understanding of malaria", this second conference will bring together leading malaria researchers to review current progress and to chart future challenges.</span> </span></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>Internationally renowned speakers will present their insights into malaria elimination, including social science and policies; Artemisinin resistance; new drugs; vaccines; diagnostic challenges and vector controls.</span> </span></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations</span> </span></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>Highly topical scientific program</span> </span></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><span>Internationally renowned invited speakers and organizing committee</span> </span></span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </li><li id="id6c"> <div class="EventDescriptionDisplayPanel" id="id6d"> <div id="EventDescriptionPanel" class="panelHeader"> <h3 class="panelDragHandle"> <span> Organizing committee </span> </h3> </div> <div id="id6e"> </div> <div id="id6f" class="panelContent"> <div id="id70" class="descriptionPanel"> <div id="id71"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 58.0px;" src="http://www.essentialmed.org/images/Portraits/MT.jpg" alt=""></strong></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;"><strong style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;">Marcel Tanner, </strong></b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 56.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7112/7439463698_ba2220455f_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;"><b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;">Marcel Hommel, </b></b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">University of Liverpool, UK</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 68.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7407092972_28e0a71538_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">David Arnot, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 45.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7114/7407095942_0fc1556134_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">David Bell, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">FIND, Geneva, Switzerland</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 67.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8152/7407102938_288597988e_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">David Rollinson, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">Natural History Museum, London, UK</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 63.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5466/7407113154_5230d84328_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">Willem Takken, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">Wageningen University, Netherlands</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 67.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/7407116488_212a32aa66_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <p> <strong style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">Ambrose O. Talisuna, </strong><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">World Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), Nairobi, Kenya</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 71.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8003/7374906922_22713a525f_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">Tim Wells, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">MMV, Geneva, Switzerland</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 66.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5443/7439493076_5ace882c23_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <br> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">Nicholas J. White, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">University of Oxford, UK</span></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 44.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8142/7439477866_98e840bcdd_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> <p> <b style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">Holly A. Williams, </b><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">CDC, Atlanta,</span><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;text-align: left;">USA</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 64.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 67.0px;" src="http://new-www.mbl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dyann_wirth_sm.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 244.0px;"> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">Dyann W</strong><strong style="margin: 0.0px;padding: 0.0px;font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">irth</strong><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">, Harvard University,</span><span style="font-family: Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 14.0px;">USA</span></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 68.0px;"> </td> <td style="width: 240.0px;"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> </div> </div> </div> </li><li id="id72"> <div class="EventDescriptionDisplayPanel" id="id73"> <div id="EventDescriptionPanel" class="panelHeader"> <h3 class="panelDragHandle"> <span> Speakers & panel </span> </h3> </div> <div id="id74"> </div> <div id="id75" class="panelContent"> <div id="id76" class="descriptionPanel"> <div id="id77"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 75.0px;" src="http://www.cresib.cat/site/unitFiles/613/090.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Pedro Alonso,</strong> Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Spain</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 38.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5035/7413119170_a39f460216_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Kevin Baird,</strong> Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, Indonesia</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 52.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7413122570_6a6f979d4a_m.jpg" alt=""></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Teun Bousema,</strong> London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 52.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5236/7413125072_246f477787_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Richard E. Cibulskis</strong>, Global Malaria Programme WHO, Geneva</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 49.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7254/7581464294_46049f1ccf_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Don de Savigny,</strong> Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 75.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8018/7413155432_5892f221f0_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Abdoulaye Diabate,</strong> Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 33.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7413158872_04fa77594c_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Chris Drakeley,</strong> London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 61.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7413162184_dc6ba66990_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <br> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Simon Hay,</strong> University of Oxford, UK</span></p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 33.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/7561729700_693ecf1469_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Stephen Hoffman,</strong> Sanaria Inc., Rockville, USA </span></td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 50.0px;" src="http://arctec.lshtm.ac.uk/sites/arctec.lshtm.ac.uk/files/imagecache/staff/images/team/Lindsay_Steve06!.JPG" alt=""></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Steve Lindsay,</strong> London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 52.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/7561716634_55a0a8c73a_m.jpg" alt=""><br> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>James McCarthy,</strong> Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia</span></td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 50.0px;" src="http://www.costech.or.tz/images/stories/dg.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Hassan Mshinda, </strong>Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 68.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8164/7413185580_d8bebdbebc_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Halima Mwenesi,</strong> FHI 360, Washington, USA</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 66.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7117/7446536336_20aacf0e34_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Robert Newman, </strong>Global Malaria Programme WHO, Geneva, Switzerland</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 57.0px;" src="http://www.psi.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/225_width/kate-oconnell.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Kate O'Connell,</strong> ACTwatch PSI, Nairobi, Kenya</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 58.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5279/7374897324_c0f423738e_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Robert Sinden,</strong> Imperial College London, UK</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 71.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7228/7189660713_ba78458c09_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Laurence Slutsker,</strong> Center for Global Health CDC, Atlanta, USA</span></p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 67.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7439517574_3aab991462_m.jpg" alt=""></span></p> </td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Richard Steketee,</strong> PATH, Seattle, USA</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 58.0px;" src="http://www.essentialmed.org/images/Portraits/MT.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> </p> <p> <strong style="font-size: 14.0px;">Marcel Tanner,</strong><span style="font-size: 14.0px;"> Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland</span></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 71.0px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8003/7374906922_22713a525f_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Tim Wells,</strong> MMV, Geneva, Switzerland</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 73.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 66.0px;" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5443/7439493076_5ace882c23_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 235.0px;"> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Nicholas J. White,</strong> University of Oxford, UK</span></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 77.0px;"> <img style="width: 50.0px;height: 54.0px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/7189669625_190fe27cb5_m.jpg" alt=""></td> <td style="width: 231.0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14.0px;"><strong>Bryan Yeung,</strong> Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </body> </html> </noframes>