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TAKeOFF Network

Set out to commence in 2017, TAKeOFF brings together a consortium of experts in filarial infections. The network comprises five academic/research institutional partners in 4 countries. This multi-national network is coordinated by Prof. Alexander Yaw Debrah of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and co-led by Prof. Dr. Achim Hoerauf of the University Hospital Bonn, Germany.

The Mission

To offer evidence-based treatment, control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis in Africa through networking, awareness programs and empowering researchers and local health authorities within the African region.

The Vision

TAKeOFF consortium aims to make Africa and the world free of Lymphatic Filariasis and Podoconiosis

The Consortium

TAKeOFF consortium is constituted by the following partners:

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine/Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.

The Principal Investigators of TAKeOFF are:

  1. Prof. Alexander Yaw Debrah, Ghana
  2. Prof. Dr. Achim Hoerauf, Germany
  3. Prof. Samuel Wanji, Cameroon
  4. Dr. Inge Kroidl, Germany
  5. Dr. Upendo Mwingira, Tanzania
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