The NHMRC has provided OzEMalaR with funds to support exchange between Australian malariologists and members of EVIMalaR (European Virtual Institute of Malaria Research) through the Australia Europe Malaria Research Cooperative Travel Award Funding Assistance. Funding Assistance is available for Postdocs and PhD students who are ASP members to undertake research for short periods in European labs as part of their project. More senior investigators are also eligible for support where the primary objective is collaborative research.
Uyen To Nguyen was a recipient of a Researcher Exchange grant to visit Odile PUIJALON Institut Pasteur, Molecular Parasite Immunology Unit, Dept of Parasitology and Mycology to learn protocols and techniques in tissue culture and in the manipulation of isolated perfused human spleens and micro-beads systems and then conduct the perfusion experiments with human spleen.