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Arise Project
African Research and Innovative Initiative for Sickle cell Education:
Improving Research Capacity for Service Improvement
ARISE- African Research and Innovative Initiative for Sickle cell Education: Improving Research Capacity for Service Improvement is a research project recently funded by the EU in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 programme aimed at creating an interagency and multidisciplinary staff exchange programme between experienced researchers, early start investigators and other relevant staff members of the partners institutions to share and spread the best practices in Newborn Screening, diagnosis and treatment of SCD, leading to improvement in overall disease outcome.
Latest News & Events
Keep updated on all the initiatives and events of the ARISE project
SAVE THE DATE – ARISE webinar on gene-therapy in Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion-Dependent Thalassaemia
ARISE is organizing a webinar on gene-therapy (Exa-cel) in Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion-Dependent Thalassaemia, that will be held online on Friday April 12th at 11 am UK time. The webinar will be hosted by Thomas Blair, Senior Medical Science Liaison for Vertex...
ARISE newsletter: February 2024
Read the ARISE newsletter: February 2024
Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease available
from the blog
Learn more about ARISE project through the secondees’ experiences
Mercy Gandu’s experience
My name is Mercy Gandu a Nurse/Midwife working with the obstetric and gynaecology department of Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital Kaduna State, Nigeria. I was more than excited when I got another opportunity to attend this secondment. I was hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’...
Sakina Adamu’s secondement experience in Lisbon
I am Sakina Adamu Ciroma, a medical laboratory scientist, an ARISE secondee trained on work package 3. My secondment experience was at Health and Technology research centre (HTRC), Escola de superio Technologia de Saude de Lisbon-Instituto politecnico de Lisbon...
Grace’s secondment expericence
I’m Chidinma Grace Ebirim, a medical Laboratory Scientist working with Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State. Nigeria. My secondment was hosted by hosted by School of Health Technology in Lisbon for three months, from February to April 2024, under...
Arise Project
What is
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cells disorders. People suffering from SCD have an abnormal protein in their red blood cells.
SCD is among the world’s most common serious inherited diseases with more than 300,000 annual births, 85% are born in sub-Saharan Africa.