Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award
Funds clinical trial teams in low and middle income settings to test infectious disease interventions effectively.
The Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award is a one-off competitive call administered by Wellcome Trust in partnership with the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), using official UK international development funding. The award supports transdisciplinary teams to conduct randomised controlled trials (RCTs) optimising licensed pharmaceutical interventions for speci…
Randomised controlled trials optimising licensed pharmaceutical interventions for specified infectious diseases — including mycobacterial infections, bacterial infections, invasive fungal infections, dengue, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis — led from Africa, South Asia, or South-East Asia.
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