Validation

Our Validation pump-prime funding call, held in 2018, aimed to fund projects which produced validated techniques that could be used across the three vector families. To find out more about the three projects funded and the scientists involved click on the links below.

Validation projects

The use of FTA cards to monitor Leishmania infection and infectiousness in sandflies and midges

Cracking sandfly dispersal with eggs: adaptation of an immunomarking technique for use with phlebotomine sandflies

Validating nanopore sequencing technology for front-line pathogen vector complex studies