General Guidelines Abstracts should contain the following four components: – Background: a concise statement of the issue under investigation or a hypothesis; – Materials & Methods: the experimental methods used (including the statistical analyses employed); – Results: specific findings (promises such as “to be completed” or “to be presented”...
On October 12th, Raph Hamers was interviewed on national radio (VPRO Bureau Buitenland NPO Radio 1) on the emerging problem of HIV drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa as a possible threat to the success of large-scale HIV treatment. He recently co-authored a research paper in...
Hart- en vaatziekten komen vaker voor bij hiv-positieve patiënten in vergelijking met de algemene bevolking. In dit artikel bespreken de auteurs factoren die een rol spelen bij het ontstaan van hart- en vaatziekten bij mensen met hiv. Daarnaast gaat men in op belangrijke pijlers in...
Leading Health & Life Science Research in Amsterdam Amsterdam Research brings together opinion leading academic research in the field of Health & Life Sciences developed in the Amsterdam region. In doing so - and on the authority of the two medical centers and the two universities...
Prof. F.G.J. Cobelens (1959) has been appointed professor of Global Health at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA). Frank Cobelens is an epidemiologist specialised in infectious diseases, particularly in resource-poor countries. His research primarily centres on tuberculosis (TB), currently the world’s deadliest infectious disease....
By the end of 2015 65,3 million people left their homes in effort to flee war and violence. Never has the world faced this many refugees. The devastating situation in Syria, causing 4,9 million people to flee their country in search for a safer place...
Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and using data from most countries in the world, tracked height among young adult men...
This was presented during an FT/IFC award ceremony in London on Thursday, 9th June 2016. The FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards are presented by the Financial Times (FT) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused...
This is to remind you of the following seminar on the occasion of the PhD defense of Andrew Kerkhoff, that AIGHD hosts together with the AMC Department of Tropical Medicine. Please register at the latest on Wednesday June 15 (secretariat@aighd.org). Kind regards, Prof. Frank Cobelens and Prof. Martin...