Clinical Trials in Public Health Emergencies: the Ebola and COVID Experiences
NIH COVID-19 SIG Lecture Series
Designing and implementing clinical trials for novel infectious disease treatments brings many challenges, especially during a rapidly evolving pandemic. A new disease brings uncertainties arising from an imperfect understanding about illness, limited information about proposed countermeasures, and complexities in measuring relevant patient outcomes. A pandemic adds an overloaded medical system with limited resources for research, heightened pressure to find cures quickly, and unpredictability about potential case numbers. I will discuss issues related to designing and conducting treatment t...
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Frog species Hyperolius phantasticus
The frog species Hyperolius phantasticus is found in Lekety, Republic of Congo.
[Specimens will be part of the National Science Foundation-supported iDigBio project, funded under NSF grants DBI 1115210 and DBI 1547229.]
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New frog species Phrynobatrachus
A Phrynobatrachus, a new species of frog discovered near Lekety village in the Republic of Congo.
[Specimens will be part of the National Science Foundation-supported iDigBio project, funded under NSF grants DBI 1115210 and DBI 1547229.]
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Schouteden ’ s reed frog Hyperolius schoutedeni
The first record of Schouteden’s reed frog (Hyperolius schoutedeni) in Gabon or the Republic of Congo provided researchers with an opportunity to collect the first tissue sample from the species.
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