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Preparatory work to define and scope African ‘One Health’ Grand Challenges that may be tractable with synthetic biology

Reference	BBS/OS/GC/000007
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Susan Rosser
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Francisca Mutapi
Institution	University of Edinburgh
Department	University of Edinburgh Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	12,708
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	27/10/2016
End date	28/02/2017
Duration	4 months

Abstract

This project will endeavour to form links with African researchers to better understand, identify and define areas in the ‘One Health’ theme that: a.) Are aligned with Africa’s own science and technology strategic goals and meet their population’s most pressing needs; b.) May be tractable through application of synthetic biology and/or state-of-art gene editing technologies. To do this, we will leverage Edinburgh existing strong links to Africa across both human and animal health. After the connections have been made we will organise visits to those most interested in synthetic biology to better understand the specific challenge identified, get insight into local constraints in research and its funding, and to identify on the best route for collaboration going forward.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	GCRF Scoping Workshops for Synthetic Biology (GCRF SWSB) [2016]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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