Cellular immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and clinical presentation in individuals exposed to endemic malaria
We are pleased to share a paper from our first research collaboration with West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) – University of Ghana, where we explored the link between malaria and lower COVID-19 deaths in Africa. This project is supported by Google, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Clinical disease activity in autoimmune rheumatic patients receiving COVID-19 vaccines
Our research on the COURAGE cohort of our Heritage Study has been published in BMC Rheumatology! The COvid-19 vaccine immUne Response in Autoimmune rheumatic patients: a Ghanaian Experience (COURAGE) study, led by Dr. Ida Dzifa Dey, followed 38 patients with Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) and Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over 12 months at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, to access changes in clinical disease activity following COVID-19 vaccination, and to understand vaccine immune response in this subset.