Why join the LRS? |
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LRS is a professional organization devoted to the advancement of knowledge of human health and disease viz. all aspects related to leishmaniasis. It aims to promote the translation of basic research into clinical investigation, and to convert clinical evidence into practice. |
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The multinational features of our membership enable LRS to provide a venue for the exchange of information and knowledge among members and to foster new ideas for conquering human health problems through networking across disciplines. |
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Benefits of belonging to the LRS |
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| Bursaries for young Leishmaniacs |
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The society will seek to accumulate funds such that it will be able to provide bursaries to young researchers and practitioners in the field to attend conferences (subsistence plus conference fee). This will provide educational and professionally relevant training to the next generation of Leishmaniacs. It will also enable introductions at the personal level that are important in the development of careers. |
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Interprofessional-interactions |
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The membership is an opportunity for those engaged in research to meet up with colleagues in development, production, assay, marketing , equipment manufacture, component production, and those engaged in international organization who are working on national and international problems of the curbing of infectious disease. Exchange of clinical isolates, recombinant plasmids, rare bio chemicals, antibodies etc will be facilitated. |
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Newsletter and LRS Blog |
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The members will be able to circulate information they wish to publicize via an electronic medium. This will also serve as an early alert for matters of significance that have occurred and are important to catch the attention of leishmaniacs. This forum may provide facilities for job advertisements and publicity for new products and equipment. |
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| Email alert |
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provide members with a personal email alert should some event of outstanding significance occur. |
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| Publicise good people |
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The society will provide members with the benefits of recognition for outstanding service, performance or invention in the area of Leishmaniasis research. This will receive publicity via the Web site. |
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| Establish a Web presence |
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Members can participate in periodic webinars and monitor the news and videos of ongoing research activities being executed in health care hospitals in endemic region. |
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| Liase with the press and media |
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It is possible for a society to form a relationship with the news media to provide expert opinion on issues related to Leishmaniasis research in India. This society would be the first port-of-call for those in the media who want specialists to provide material on defined topics; the society would hold in its members data base information as to who might be approached for different subject areas. |
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Liase with Regulatory Agencies |
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Members would benefit from representations to such agencies that was profession based rather than based on a particular interested party. The members would benefit from having a society whose representatives may express with authority views on leishmaniasis health care system. The members would benefit from the representations of members of the society to governmental and charitable organizations. |
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