The past few days have been leading up to today’s meeting with the DMO. To start the day, we organized our final thoughts and materials for the presentation. During the meeting, we presented the poster and flipbook to the DMO. He provided specific directions to tailor the poster to his preferences. Additionally, a member […]
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Days 4-5: The 5-Point Plan
We had originally planned to meet with our contact from EKB, a local university. According to SHAFS, she was the medical advisor for their advocacy efforts and maintained certain connections to the Ministry of Health. However, with it nearing the end of the school year here in Sierra Leone, she was very busy grading and […]
Day 14: An Early Start
The entirety of the SicklED team rose early this morning in order to make it to our first commitment. We were scheduled to attend a local outreach meeting that a nurse at a nearby PHU was conducting at a village a few minutes outside of Makeni. The nurse, who works at Yoni PHU, which the […]
Week 5: More Conjugation Experiments and Fieldwork
Dialysis We’ve had a number of experiments planned for the summer, all focused on optimizing specific aspects of our device. Part of this batch of experiments was implementing a less taxing/time consuming procedure for the dialysis of our antibodies. We’ve found a suitable alternative in column purification of our antibodies instead. It takes a fraction […]