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Robert E. Shope International Fellowship

Deadline: April 18, 2018

The Fellowship provides $25,000 in support for international training opportunities in arbovirology and emerging diseases for those with an MD, DVM, PhD or the equivalent. Recipients inspired by Dr. Shope will involve themselves in studies of arbovirology and/ or emerging diseases from clinical to field to laboratory studies.This award provides support for a short-term research experience in the tropics in the area of arbovirology and/or emerging diseases

2017
	Amy Krystosik, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States "Field test of Miniaturized Automated Whole Blood Cellular Analysis System to Assess Immunity to Arboviruses in Msambweni, Kenya"
	Overseas location Kenya

2016
	Kayla Barnes, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States "Untangling the Genetic Diversity of Zika Virus"
	Overseas location Brazil

2015
	Claire Heath, Stanford University, United States "Characterization of Immune Factors of Chronic Chikungunya Disease"
	Overseas location Haiti

2014
No award given

2013
	Jesse Waggoner, Stanford University, United States "Multiplex Arbovirus Detection in Febrile Patients"
	Overseas location Zimbabwe

2012
	Gillian Eastwood, Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, United States "The Effect of Land-Use on the Distribution and Enzootic Cycling of Mosquito-borne Viruses"
	Overseas location Panama

2011
	Jonathan Auguste, University of the West Indies, Jamaica "Isolation, molecular characterization and phylodynamic analysis of sylvatic mosquito-borne viruses in Trinidad and the wider Americas"
	Overseas location Trinidad