Applications for the Fall 2017 competition are now open! Click here to apply! The submission deadline is September 15, 2017.

Funding for the WARC Travel Grant Program is provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.

The WARC Travel Grant promotes intra-African cooperation and exchange among researchers and institutions by providing support to African scholars and graduate students for research visits to other institutions on the continent. This competition is open only to West African nationals, with preference given to those affiliated with West African colleges, universities, or research institutions.

Competitions for the WARC Travel Grant are held twice yearly: In September and in March. The next round of applications is currently open. Their deadline for submission is September 15, 2017.

This past May, we had the pleasure of selecting the following Fellows for the Spring 2017 WARC Travel Grant. We look forward to their research findings in months to come…

Evariste Bako (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), “Molecular Epidemiology of Virulence Genes and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Diarrheal Escherichia Coli Pathogenic Strains Isolated from Livestock Market Effluents in Ouagadougou”

•  The project aims to study the most common diarrheal E. coli strains encountered livestock market’s effluents in Ouagadougou, their sensitivity to antibiotics commonly used in human and animal medicine, and to characterize the molecular supports of the antibiotics resistance of these strains.

N’Do Jotham (University of Ouagadougou), “Potentiel hépatoprotecteur et criblage phytochimique de Acanthospermum hispidum DC (Asteracea)”

•  This is a study of the medicinal plants used in the treatment of liver diseases by isolating the molecules that fight liver cancer present in the plants Acanthospermum hispidum.

Kossitse Venyo Akpataku (Université de Lomé, Togo), “Identification des sources de contamination des eaux souterraines par les composés minéraux azotés : Cas de la Région des Plateaux du Togo”

• This is the ongoing study of identifying the sources of groundwater contamination by nitrogenous mineral compounds in the Plateau Region of Togo.