IMCI-PLUS - Point of Care Ultrasound for Pediatric Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa

IMCI-PLUS is an inter-disciplinary, Pan-African-EU research partnership, with emphasis on capacity strengthening and mutual learning, to improve management of pediatric lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI)–the leading cause of child morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)–by working…

01.04.2024 - 30.09.2028
Research project, Teaching and training project, Intervention Study, Clinical Trial Medical Devices & IV diagnostica
European Commission (EU) / European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
BRANCH - Nutritional management of growth faltering in infants aged under six months in Asia and Africa. Study protocol for an individually randomised trial (‘BRANCH’)

The WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (WHO/MCA) will coordinate a multi-country, multi-centre randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of approaches to prevent and manage growth faltering in the first six months of life on wasting-free survival at…

07.02.2024 - 08.08.2026
Clinical Trial
World Health Organization (WHO)
Clinical Operations
Elisabeth Reus
AVITHRAPID - Antiviral Therapeutics for Rapid Response Against Pandemic Infectious Diseases

The European Consortium "Antiviral Therapeutics for Rapid Response Against Pandemic Infectious Diseases" (AVITHRAPID) aims to support the search for novel broad-spectrum antiviral compounds by advancing multiple approaches. Building on a pre-existing set of bioactive small molecules, which are at…

01.01.2024 - 30.06.2028
Clinical Trial, Research project
European Commission (EU) / Horizon Europe
Clinical Operations
Elisabeth Reus
BACOBA - BAP5191 - First in human trial on cutaneous leishmaniasis

 The aim of this translational research project is to conduct a first in human (clinical phase I) study and test BAP5191, a new formulation intended to be a cure for cutaneous leishmaniasis – a neglected stigmatizing and debilitating tropical disease with an estimated 600 000 to 1 million of new…

01.05.2021 - 31.08.2024
Clinical Trial
Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency / Innovation project with implementation partners
Clinical Operations, Clinical Statistics and Data Management
Elisabeth Reus , Sonja Bernhard