The TDR Committee on Pathogenesis and Applied Genomics (PAG) met in September 2002 in Bangkok, Thailand recommended TDR funding of two South-South projects. The two projects listed below were selected from among a large number of applications received from investigators worldwide, and will be funded for one year in the first instance. If satisfactory progress is made in the first year, funding for an additional year will be awarded provided that sufficient funds are available.

2002 South-South collaboration grants in Pathogenesis and Applied Genomics

Project ID	Principal Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Funding in US$
A20363	Mariano Jorge Levin	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingenieria Genetica y Biologia Molecular (INGEBI), Buenos Aires, Argentina	Specific molecular mechanisms as targets of novel anti-parasitic drugs	70,000
A20308	Helmi Mardassi	Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia	Comparative genomics and differential expression analysis of the PE-PGRS proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	50,000