World Health Organization (WHO): TDR Research on Diseases of Poverty - Research on the vulnerability of preventive chemotherapy of helminth infections to emergence of drug resistance

- Literature review of determinants of parasite drug response and transmission for diseases controlled by preventive chemotherapy
Funding: up to $10,000 for completion of the review in 6 months.
- Modelling the spread of ‘low response’ parasites within the population of a ‘transmission zone’
- Research for genetic markers of O. volvulus response to ivermectin and development of an onchocerciasis control programme surveillance tool
- Research for genetic markers of O. volvulus population structure and potential development of a tool for defining transmission zones
Applicants can be individual researchers, research groups from within one institution or
collaborative groups of researchers from different institutions including at least one researcher
from an onchocerciasis endemic country. Individual researchers and research groups from institution(s) in non-onchocerciasis endemic countries need to document that they have established a collaboration with researchers in or from an onchocerciasis endemic country or a collaboration with an onchocerciasis control programme. A decision on specific funding has not been made yet.
http://www.who.int/tdr/grants/en/