Advancing intercontinental collaboration in human genetics: success story of the African and European Young Investigator Forum

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es salaam, Tanzania.
• ² Tanzania Human Genetics Organization, Dar es salaam, Tanzania.
• ³ Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Services, and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁵ Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁶ West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 54, Legon GA184, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana.
• ⁷ European Society of Human Genetics-Young Committee, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁸ Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁹ International Doctoral Programme in Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology Applied to Health Sciences (BiotechHealth), School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ¹⁰ Medicover Ophthalmology and Ophthalmogenetics Department, Bucharest, Romania.
• ¹¹ Medlife Ophthalmology Department, Bucharest, Romania.
• ¹² Public and Professional Policy Committee, European Society of Human Genetics, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹³ Computational Biology Group, Department of Integrative Biomedical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Coeliac Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
• ¹⁵ Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ¹⁶ Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Synevo-Department of Medical Genetics, Bucharest, Romania.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Serviço de Genética Médica, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal.
• ²⁰ Department of Clinical Laboratory Services, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ²¹ Wellcome Connecting Science, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
• ²² Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ²³ Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
• ²⁴ Folkhälsan Research Center, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ²⁵ European Society of Human Genetics-Young Committee, Vienna, Austria. m.mroczek888@gmail.com.