PD Dr. Alfons Renz

• Epidemiology of human and and epizootiology of bovine filarial parasites in Cameroon
• Development of the bovine Onchocerca ochengi model for studies on the biology. Chemotherapy and immunology of filarial parasites
• Vectorbiology and control of Simulium blackflies, Culicidae, Glossinidae, Stomoxynae, Ceratopogonidae, ticks and others.
• Genetic markers of susceptibility or resistance against parasitic diseases in two Cameroonian cattle breeds, Bos taurus and Bos indicus.

To learn more about ongoing and past research projects in Cameroon and the Programme Onchocercoses field laboratory in Ngaoundéré, please visit our websites:

• http://www.riverblindness.eu
• http://www.parasitologie-wenk-renz.de
• http://www.vektorbiologie.uni-tuebingen.de/
• Alfons Renz on ResearchGate

Since 2015

Baden-Württenberg-Stipendium Plus: Project for training Cameroonian and German students

Since 2014

Member of the Ethiopian Onchocerciasis Elimination Expert Advisory Committee

Since 2013

Co-ordinator: DFG-Project: “Is eradication of human onchocerciasis possible? Entomological, biological and epidemiological studies on filarial parasites in North-Cameroon” Univ. Tübingen, MPI Tübingen (PD Dr. A. Streit), BNITH Hamburg (PD Dr. N. Brattig), Univ. of Bamenda (Dr. F. Nguemaim), IRAD Cameroon (Dr. Manchang), TOZARD, Bamenda (Dr. D. Achukwi).

2008-11

Co-investigator: Studies on the secretom and proteom of filarial worms (Profs. E. Liebau, K. Luersen, N. Brattig. D. Achu-Kwi, D. Ndjonka, Univ. Münster, Hamburg, Ngaoundere, DFG)

2008

Molecular approaches to the population biology of Onchocerca ochengi in cattle (Prof. R. Post, British Mus. Nat. Hist., and LSHTM)

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alma and www.vektorbiologie.uni-tuebingen.de

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