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Complementary NIH Research Training Grants in Tanzania Increase UVA Center for Global Health Equity’s Research Capacity

April 29, 2025 by daf4a@virginia.edu

(From left) Tatev Gomtsyan (UVA student), Caroline Rich (UVA student), Dr. Frank Thobias Adel (Medical Doctor - KIDH), and Mr. Thobias Magati (MKUTA Coordinator - tuberculosis survivors group) examine clinical workflow.

(From left) Tatev Gomtsyan and Caroline Rich, UVA students; Dr. Frank Thobias Adel, KIDH medical doctor; and Thobias Magati, MKUTA Coordinator for tuberculosis survivors’ group examine clinical workflow.

A decades-long partnership with UVA School of Medicine faculty and institutions in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania now supports two NIH-Fogarty International Center research training grants.

The D43 grant to support Tanzanian post-doctoral scientists and a new G11 grant to develop research administrators carry the complementary aim to grow research capacity for U.S. and Tanzanian scientists to collaborate and compete for new research funding in priority areas including undernutrition, HIV, and tuberculosis.

With research infrastructure built over decades in the UVA Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, and through the pan-university Center for Global Health Equity, undergraduate, masters, and medical students join Tanzanian post-doctoral students and early career scientists.

Read the full story on the UVA Global website.

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