Schistosomiasis collection at the Natural History Museum
Electron micrograph of a male/female pair of adult schistosomes.
What is SCAN?
SCAN is a project to create a schistosomiasis collection at the Natural History Museum. In building a global repository of schistosomiasis related specimens and contextual data providing a resource for essential research into schistosomiasis, a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD).
Field collecting in Niger.
What are our goals ?
We are
- consolidating existing collections and data
- ensuring storage methods for samples are compatible with analysis by a range of techniques associated with molecular-based research
- transferring specimens into the best possible storage systems
- providing safe and stable storage of specimens collected as part of external research programmes
- facilitating research by providing access to the collections and data
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What is Schistosomiasis?
Discover more about the disease, what causes it and where in the world it is found.
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Research partnerships
Learn more about SCANs research partnerships and the Schistosomiasis related research projects.
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The SCAN team
Learn more about the team building a schistosomiasis collection at the Natural History Museum.
Contact us
We welcome collaboration with the schistosomiasis research community.
For more information please contact SCAN manager
Dr Aidan Emery
Schistosome researcher and Culture Facility Laboratory Manager, responsible for molecular collections development.
Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London, SW7 5BD, UK.
Organisation
SCAN is based at the Natural History Museum and managed by the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical laboratories, a WHO Collaborating Centre for the identification and characterisation of schistosomes and their intermediate snail hosts.
We also work in partnership with the Molecular Collections Facility (MCF) at the Museum.