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Mike Irvine (who has recently left SBIDER for the delights of Vancouver) and Deirdre, together with collegues at Eramus (Netherlands) Notre Dame (USA) and the Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry, India, have shown that 3 different models with varying assumptions about transmission all indicate that the new triple-drug therapy for lymphatic filariasis is likely to be highly effective. This study shows how this new regime has the potential to accelerate the elimination of lymphatic filariasis

Irvine, M.A., Stolk, W.A., Smith, M.E., Subramanian, S., Singh, B.K., Weil, G.J., Michael, E., Hollingsworth, T.D. (2017) Effectiveness of a triple-drug regimen for global elimination of lymphatic filariasis: A modelling study. Lancet Infectious Diseases. (in press)http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30467-4

"Making Transmission Models Accessible to End-Users: The Example of TRANSFIL" has just been published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by Mike Irvine and Deirdre Hollingsworth.

http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005206

I'm delighted to announce that Tim Pollington, a MathSys and SBIDER PhD student, is one of only a handful of UK-based students who have been awarded a Newton Bhabha studentship. Tim will get to spend time at Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India. This placement is funded by British Council, Department of Science and Technology(DST) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and offers a fantastic chance for Tim to learn about visceral leishmaniasis in India.