{"id":83234,"date":"2020-10-21T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/?p=83234"},"modified":"2020-10-21T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:43:54","slug":"pregart-co-principal-investigator-professor-eleni-aklillu-winner-of-the-donald-mackay-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/pregart-co-principal-investigator-professor-eleni-aklillu-winner-of-the-donald-mackay-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregart Co-Principal Investigator,  Professor Eleni Aklillu \u2013 winner of the Donald Mackay Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Eleni Aklillu, Pregart Co-Principal Investigator and\u00a0Professor in Tropical Pharmacology and research group leader at Department of Laboratory Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious RSTMH Donald Mackay Medal.<\/p>\n<p>The medal is presented for outstanding work in tropical health and awarded annually by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine &amp; Hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>Eleni Aklillu is Professor in Tropical Pharmacology and research group leader at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She received a Bachelor of Pharmacy and MSc in Biochemistry from Addis Ababa University, and a PhD in molecular genetics from Karolinska Institutet. Her research focuses on clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenetics with special emphasis on how to optimize treatment and\/or prevention of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. She investigated\u00a0impacts of host-genetic factors, drug interactions, coinfections and comorbidities on drug safety and efficacy. Her research contributes to understanding treatment challenges and provide evidence-based recommendations to revise treatment guidelines and strategies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Prof-Aklillu-1-e1603297932409-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Prof-Aklillu-1-e1603297932409-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Prof-Aklillu-1-e1603297932409-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Prof-Aklillu-1-e1603297932409.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Professor Aklillu has received several major external research grants as principal investigator and trained 20 PhD students from sub-Saharan Africa. She co-authored\u00a0130 peer-reviewed publications. Aklillu is a member of the Swedish research council committee for development research, a fellow of Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and the African Academy of Sciences, and a former member of Strategic Advisory Committee for European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly honored and delighted to receive the 2020 Donald Mackay Medal of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. It is the result of our extensive clinical pharmacology research on the treatment of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and various neglected tropical diseases. It is encouraging and overwhelming to have my work recognized in this way, and I would like to acknowledge the hard work of everyone in my research group and my collaborators in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Sweden during the last two decades\u201d\u00a0says Eleni Aklillu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Eleni Aklillu, Pregart Co-Principal Investigator and\u00a0Professor in Tropical Pharmacology and research group leader at Department of Laboratory Medicine, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pregart Co-Principal Investigator, Professor Eleni Aklillu \u2013 winner of the Donald Mackay Medal - Pregart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pregart.eu\/archive\/pregart-co-principal-investigator-professor-eleni-aklillu-winner-of-the-donald-mackay-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pregart Co-Principal Investigator, Professor Eleni Aklillu \u2013 winner of the Donald Mackay Medal - 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