BEready Cohort at BEA 2025 The BEready Cohort team took part in BEA 2025 with their activity "Ticks under the magnifying glass", enganging with the public on this key topic and taking the opportunity to present the BEready Cohort.
MCID in UniBE delegation: Africa-Europe 360° cooperation The MCID were part of UniBE's delegation at the event "Africa-Europe 360° cooperation" hosted by the Mission of Switzerland to the EU and co-organized by the Initiative Afrique, University of Bern and SwissCore. Carmen Faso, MCID Co-Chair presented the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence Genomics for Health in Africa, Co-Lead by the MCID.
MCID, hot off the press: direct transmission of Wesselbron virus in sheep A recent study from the group of Dr Obdulio García-Nicolás and Prof. Charaf Benarafa, funded by the MCID investigates transmission of Wesselbron virus in sheep and highlights the importance of studying neglected diseases.
MCID highlights 2024 2024 has been a busy and exciting year at the MCID. Here we show some highlights of the year: From top left, clockwise: * Carmen Faso, MCID Co-Chair, presents CoRE-Genomics for Health in Africa, Co-Lead by the MCID, at The Africa – Europe Clusters of Research Excellence Conference at Stellenbosch University * Lively discussions about the BEready Cohort at the MCID Annual Event 2024 * Jörg Jores and the Synthetic Genomics Platform team hard at work * Caroline Schlaufer, Policy Manager at the Ethics and Policy Lab, presents at the Symposium on the Revision of the Epidemics Act * Panel discussion on the role of science in policy-making at the MCID Annual Event 2024 * MCID-PhD students Isabelle Schultz-Pernice and (next photo) Jonas Steiner present their research at the GCB Sympoisum 2024 * The first MCID-PhD student, Matthias Licheri, defends his PhD thesis
