Belgian Society of Parasitology and Protistology
The membership entitles the members to participate to the annual scientific meeting, including catering, participate to the partly subsidised dinner and compete for the 3 grants offered by the Society: the Merial grant for promising young parasitologists, the Avia-GIS grant for the best presentation at the annual scientific meeting and the Zoetis travel grant to attend international conferences.
The annual membership fee is 25 euros to be paid on the account of the Society:
BSPP account at ING bank: 320-0710896-53
IBAN: BE53 3200 7108 9653
BIC: BBRUBEBB
New members are welcome to join the society. One patron from the board is required to support new applications. Please, download the form below, fill it in and sent it back to the secretariat.
News
Internist-infectioloog Meta Roestenberg van het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) ontvangt de Boehringer-Ingelheim prijs voor haar onderzoek in de translationele parasitologie. Roestenberg werkt aan experimentele klinische studies die moeten leiden tot een snellere en goedkopere ontwikkeling van nieuwe medicijnen en vaccins. More info.
The 2018 Zoetis travel Grant was awarded to Irina Matetovici (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp) to attend the The European Congress of Entomology (Naples,Italy), 2-6 July, 2018. Read about her experience here.
Guy Caljon (University of Antwerp) received the Merial Award on 18 May 2017 in Utrecht for his work on insect-transmitted parasitic infections. More info.
Eline Eberhardt (University of Antwerp) was awarded the Avia-GIS award for the best presentation at the Joint spring meeting of the Belgian Society of Parasitology & Protistology (BSPP) and the Netherlands Society of Parasitology (NVP) on 20th May 2016.
Title of the presentation: Molecular detection of infection homogeneity and impact of miltefosine treatment in a Syrian Golden hamster model of Leishmania donovani and L. infantum visceral leishmaniasis.
The 2017 Zoetis travel Grant was awarded to Franck Dumetz (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp) to attend the WorldLeish6 conference, Toledo (Spain), May 16-20, 2017.
Read about his experience here.