S3E4: Innovation and hope
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
Episode 4 of the Transmission podcast, hosted by Veerle Vanlerberghe, Halidou Tinto, Francesca Falconi, Jakke Van Den Abbeele, Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Ruth Müller, titled "S3E4: Innovation and hope" was published on April 24, 2025 and runs 27 minutes.
April 24, 2025 ·27m · Transmission
Summary
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
Episode Description
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.
This episode features:
- Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
- Anna Rosanas-Urgell, parasitologist and malariologist, Head of the Unit of Malariology (ITM)
- Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
- Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
- Halidou Tinto, ITM alumnus, parasitologist and Head of Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro in Burkina Faso
- Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru
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To learn more about ITM's research on disease elimination, visit www.itg.be/en/research/disease-elimination
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