© PACE-UP/Dr. Velavan
To close 2023, in December 11-13 GLACIER was present in Hanoi, Vietnam, to further collaborations and increase the international dissemination of our work.
The 10th anniversary of the Institute for Clinical Infectious Diseases and the 5th anniversary of DAAD Global Health Centre VG-CARE (Vietnamese-German Centre for Medical Research) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The celebratory event was organized by VG-CARE and the 108 Military Central Hospital (108-MCH).
To mark the occasion, a one-day symposium on “Infectious and Tropical Diseases” was organized. Dr. Barbara Seliger—GLACIER Principal Investigator and immunology expert—was invited as a speaker and delivered a presentation of the GLACIER project in Hanoi.
She also had the opportunity to deepen the relatioship with PACE-UP members and potential external partners to initiate further collaborations.
The audience, among which were 6 delegates from Germany, appreciated the project’s contributions and decided to work more closely together with GLACIER. A collaboration with Dr. Velavan, head of the PACE-UP centre, was started last year and the resulting paper (on cytokines) will be the basis for further collaboration with GLACIER. There will also be student exchanges between the centres.