Scholarship Recipients

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Source-Sink Dynamics of Seasonal H3N2 Human Influenza A Virus

 

Simon Cauchemez  O-885

Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Social Networks and H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Transmission Inferred from a Community Outbreak in Pennsylvania

 

Joanna Cobbin  P-618

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Neither Selection of the Fittest nor Random Generation Explains the Development of Reassortants for Vaccine Selection

 

Susan Detmer P-123

University of Minnesota, Minnesota, United States

Molecular Analyses of Vaccine and Epizootic Virus Strains of Influenza A Viruses in Swine

 

Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia, United States

Use of Electro-Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (RT-PCR/ESI-MS) for Characterization of Influenza A Viruses

 

Monica Galiano  O-906

Center for Infection, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

Evolutionary Dynamics of Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Viruses Isolated During the First and Second Wave of Infections in the United Kingdom

 

Kenrie Hui  O-878

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

The Role of Innate Sensing Receptors in H5N1 Associated Hyper-induction of Cytokines

 

New Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States

Molecular Signature of High Yield (Growth) Influenza A Virus Reassortants Prepared as Candidate Vaccine ‘Seeds’

 

Yoshiharu Nagaoka  0-826

Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1)-Associated Encephalopathy Among Japanese Children

 

Isabelle Rouleau  P-677

Faculté de Médecine de l’Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Anaphylaxis and Allergic-like Reactions Following Administration of AS03-Adjuvanted Pandemic H1N1 Vaccine: Surveillance Summary from Quebec, Canada

 

Yi Tan  O-808

Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Human-Origin A/H1N1 and
A/H1N2 Influenza Viruses in North American Swine, 2003 – 2010

 

 

Mai Le  P-103
National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,
Hanoi, Vietnam
Pathogenicity of Highly-Pathogenic Avian H5N1 Influenza A Viruses Isolated from Humans During 2003 to 2008 in Northern Vietnam  

Richard Njouom  P-689
Centre Pasteur of Cameroun, Yaouvdé, Cameroun, Africa
Genetic and Antigenic Analyses of Seasonal Influenza A (H1N1) and A (H3N2) Viruses Isolated in 2008 and 2009 in Cameroon, Central Africa

 Debjani Purakayastha  P-282

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Implementation of Large-Scale Community Based Active Surveillance: A Case Study of Influenza from India 
 

Norosoa Razanajatovo  P-368

National Influenza Center, Institut Pastur de Madagascar, Antananario, Madagascar

Tracking Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009 in Madagascar: Lesson Learned from an Influenza Sentinel Surveillance System

Pham Quang Thai  P-530
National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Household and Community Transmission Parameters for Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1 2009 in Vietnam

Options VII is honored to collaborate with PATH, a global health nonprofit organization, on a limited number of international scholarships provided for researchers from underserved regions. PATH will provide flights, hotel accommodations, registration fees, and a moderate daily stipend to researchers awarded this scholarship. All applicants must be from low-resource countries and must submit an abstract. Scholarship recipients were selected by the Grant Selection Committee.

For more information on PATH and its influenza vaccine project, please visit www.path.org. 

Mario Alvarez  O-835

Centro de BeoTenolgia-FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterray, Nuevo León, México

Specific Recognition of Influenza A/H1N1/2009 Antibodies in Human Serum: A Simple Virus-Free ELISA Method

 

Tseren-Ochir Erdene-Ochir  P-126

State Central Veterinry Laboratory, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Surveillance of Avian Influenza in Migrating Birds in Mongolia

 

Nusrat Homaira  P-714

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Incidence of Influenza Associated Deaths in Bangladesh During 2008–2009

 

Padjadjaran University-Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia

Community-based Influenza Surveillance in Two Rural Communities in West Java, Indonesia

 

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotchnology, New Delhi, India

Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein Exploits Hsp40 to Inhibit PKR Activation and eIF2alpha Phosphorylation: A Unique Strategy to Keep Host Translation ‘ON’

 

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Susceptibility of Influenza A Viruses to Neuraminidase Inhibitors as Determined by Phenotypic and Genotypic Based Assays

 

National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

T Cell Responses in Recovered H5N1 Patients

 

Key State Laboratory for Viral Genetic and Engineering, National Institute for Viral Disease Prevention and Control,

China Center of Disease Control, Beijing, China

Identification of Two Receptor-Binding Specific Strains of Human H5N1 Viruses in China