About the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network

MalariaGEN brings together research groups with different projects and scientific objectives to work together on large-scale investigations that depend on samples, data and expertise from multiple investigators.

 

• MalariaGEN - the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network - has partner institutions in 21 countries. 
• At each partner institution there is a research team, led by a MalariaGEN investigator, which is working on one or more of MalariaGEN's Consortial Projects.
• A Consortial Project is a large-scale experiment that addresses a specific scientific question, by using samples, data and expertise from multiple investigators. The investigators work together to standardize scientific definitions and methods, and they contribute data to a central database.
• MalariaGEN investigators have agreed on policies and procedures that define how Consortial Projects work. The results of a Consortial Project belong jointly to all the investigators involved, but investigators retain ownership of the samples and data that they contribute, and can use the data for their own analyses.
• The MalariaGEN resource centre is working to strengthen the capacity of partner institutions - particularly those in malaria-endemic countries - to design and analyse clinical and epidemiological studies that utilise genetic and genomic data.
• The resource centre provides training and support for MalariaGEN data fellows who are based at partner institutions in malaria-endemic countries.