This panel set the background for the current state of affairs in academia with regard to R&D, technology transfer and the place of the university in the innovation environment.
UAEM Board President Rachel Kiddell-Monroe recently spoke at the University of British Columbia first annual Neglected Global Diseases symposium. You can find out more about the symposium here.
Learn more at www.rollbackmalaria.org/ worldmalariaday, and celebrate! By counting just a few of the recent successes in the past year, as well as thinking on how far we've yet to go:
On February 23, UAEMers Sandeep Kishore, Gloria Tavera in conjunction with Peter Hotez, published an op-ed in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases on the importance of universities in advancing research on diseases that often have inadequate or no treatment at all. The editorial is available from the open source journal here: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000635
