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KRISP partner with FioCruz and Oxford on real-time outbreak analysis, reversing brain drain and achieving scientific excellence, Nature paper, KRISP talks and innovation events arising

This issue's highlights are:

Brain gain: Reversing Brain drain and achieving scientific excellence in Africa: This vision is starting to pay off with ten manuscripts in Nature, Science and Lancet journals!

Publication: Renewing Felsenstein's phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data. Nature (2018)

Partnership: KRISP team goes to Brazil to work with FioCruz & Oxford on Yellow Fever Outbreak

News: An era of both peril and promise: The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Sunday Tribune coverage of SPARK Innovation Breakfast

Innovation: Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast - Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents, 2 May 2018

KRISP Talks: Integrating Computer-Aided Drug Design into Infectious Disease Drug Discovery, 9 May 2018

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The concept behind this newsletter is that anyone with 15 minutes to spare can learn about the work of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), which is hosted at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa

KRISP wants to want to challenge the status quo and create a scientific environment in South Africa that drives innovations in global health and reverses the brain drain. A critical function of KRISP will be to make genomics, epigenetics and bioinformatics accessible to academic, industrial and commercial users.

News date: 2018-05-01

Links:

http://www.krisp.org.za/manuscripts/KRISPnewsletter_4_2018.pdf