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Expressions of interest are now being taken from institutions in low- and middle-income countries to assume the responsibility for the leadership, management and hosting of the TropIKA.net initiative. The WHO Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) are transitioning out the managerial responsibility.
Interested candidate institutions are invited to send a proposal and required documentation by 30 October 2012.

The selected institution will be expected to:

1. Lead, manage and host the TropIKA.net initiative;
2. Establish and coordinate a partnership with research institutions in low and middle income countries (LMIC) to run TropIKA.net;
3. Promote and raise funds for the sustainability of TropIka.net.

The 2013 Gordon Conference on Tropical Infectious Diseases: from bench to field, will present cutting edge research on the most prevalent and medically important tropical infectious diseases (TIDs), with special emphasis on research areas that have made significant recent progress. This will be the third time that this particular GRC has been held, and it will retain the general thematic organization of the very successful conference last held in 2011. The intent is to gather a multidisciplinary community of scientists discussing basic and field based or translational research in TIDs.

February 10-15, 2013
Hotel Galvez
Galveston,
Texas

Please note that a limited number of travel awards will be granted to participants from diseases endemic countries. Registrants should contact the chair to indicate their interest in applying for a travel award.

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