Strengthening neglected tropical disease research through enhancing research-site capacity: an evaluation of a novel web application to facilitate research collaborations

Tamzin Furtado; Samuel Franzen; Francois van Loggerenberg; Gwenaelle Carn; Shannon Grahek; Megan McBride; Maureen Power; Jennifer O'Reilly; Barbara Savarese; Margaret Ann Snowden; Gwynn Stevens; Almarie Uys; Trudie Lang

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003225

Strengthening neglected tropical disease research through enhancing research-site capacity: an evaluation of a novel web application to facilitate research collaborations

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Nov 13;8(11):e3225. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003225. eCollection 2014 Nov.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ The Global Health Network, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
⁴ International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America.
⁵ Clinical Unit, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
⁶ AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
⁷ Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, Pretoria, South Africa.

No abstract available

Publication types

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

Grants and funding

This report is based on research funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, or decision to publish. The funder had the opportunity to review the manuscript during publication.