Several important human diseases (like Dengue, Lyme disease, yellow fever, Leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and malaria) are transmitted by insects. They affect the lives of millions of people and kill large numbers each year, particularly in developing countries in the (sub) tropics. Many insect vectors, such as mosquitoes, ticks and flies, are difficult to combat and are becoming increasingly resistant to the currently used chemical insecticides. There is thus an enormous need for low-cost, effective and more sustainable control products against disease-carrying insects.

There are many scientific discoveries and innovations that have potential to improve insect control measures. Unfortunately however, most academic research ends in scientific publications and is not valorised; i.e. translated into useful and commercially viable products that can actually benefit the public and improve global health. Last year, for instance, there were more than 3000 malaria research articles published in scientific journals, but in the field people still have to fight mosquitoes with old-fashioned bednets and chemicals such as DDT (that has been around since 1939!).

Mission:

In2Care aims to utilize its scientific expertise to translate the latest research findings into novel and sustainable insect control products/processes that can be useful and cost-effective in disease-endemic countries and can have a real impact on global health.

Our goals are:

●      To undertake innovative, meaningful, and applied research on insect pests and disease vectors.

●      To develop novel products/processes that can effectively help protect the general public from nuisance insects and diseases transmitted by insect vectors, especially in disease-endemic countries.

●      To further develop (“re-engineer”) scientific discoveries into useful and affordable product prototypes of interest to industrial partners.

●      To validate products against insect pests and disease vectors and thereby correctly inform the general public and protect them from malware.