TReND in Africa: Toward a Truly Global (Neuro)science Community

Tom Baden; Mahmoud Bukar Maina; Andre Maia Chagas; Yunusa Garba Mohammed; Thomas O Auer; Ana Silbering; Lukas von Tobel; Marie Pertin; Renee Hartig; Jelena Aleksic; Ibukun Akinrinade; Mosab A Awadelkareem; Artemis Koumoundourou; Aled Jones; Fabiana Arieti; Andrew Beale; Daniel Münch; Samyra Cury Salek; Sadiq Yusuf; Lucia L Prieto-Godino

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.026

TReND in Africa: Toward a Truly Global (Neuro)science Community

Neuron. 2020 Aug 5;107(3):412-416. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.026. Epub 2020 Jul 20.

Authors

Tom Baden¹, Mahmoud Bukar Maina², Andre Maia Chagas³, Yunusa Garba Mohammed⁴, Thomas O Auer⁵, Ana Silbering⁶, Lukas von Tobel⁷, Marie Pertin⁸, Renee Hartig⁹, Jelena Aleksic¹⁰, Ibukun Akinrinade¹¹, Mosab A Awadelkareem¹², Artemis Koumoundourou¹³, Aled Jones¹⁴, Fabiana Arieti¹⁵, Andrew Beale¹⁶, Daniel Münch¹⁷, Samyra Cury Salek³, Sadiq Yusuf¹⁸, Lucia L Prieto-Godino¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; Department of Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK. Electronic address: t.baden@sussex.ac.uk.
² School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; College of Medical Sciences, Yobe State University, Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria.
³ School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK.
⁴ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; College of Medical Sciences, Gombe State University, Gombe State, Nigeria.
⁵ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁶ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK.
⁸ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Pain Centre, Department of Anaesthesiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁹ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany; Focus Program Translational Neurosciences, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
¹⁰ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; SparkBio Ltd, Cambridge, UK.
¹¹ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.
¹² TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Al-Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan.
¹³ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
¹⁴ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Viapath Genetic Laboratories, London, UK.
¹⁵ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Diagnostic and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
¹⁶ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁷ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹⁸ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; Uganda Management and Technology University, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁹ TReND in Africa, Brighton, UK; The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Electronic address: lucia.prietogodino@crick.ac.uk.

Abstract

TReND is a volunteer-scientist run charity dedicated to promoting research and education on the African continent. Focusing on neuroscience, we discuss approaches to address some of the factors that currently stifle Africa's scientific development and our experience in implementing them.

Keywords: Africa; capacity building; education; neuroscience.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Africa
Biomedical Research*
Capacity Building*
Charities
Faculty
Humans
Information Dissemination*
Neurosciences / education*
Public Policy*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding