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Our July newsletter is out now, featuring the latest updates on our projects in Djibouti, the US, and Brazil. Discover new hiring opportunities and enjoy photos and stories from our incredible global team. Read more! ⤵ #PublicHealth #Agriculture #Innovation #Oxitec #Sustainability #Hiring

Following a successful 2023 season, Oxitec and the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) announced that a fourth season of the FKMCD-Oxitec Mosquito Project will run through the Summer of 2024. For the 2024 season, the joint project team will be studying the integration of this sustainable, biological approach with current practices including the use of insecticides. Oxitec boxes will be placed outside in a range of locations in Florida Keys neighborhoods but no Oxitec male mosquitoes will be deployed or released, instead this work will use only a locally sourced, wild strain of Aedes aegypti. Oxitec mosquitoes have demonstrated the ability to control the invasive, disease transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito, which has been established throughout the Florida Keys. Oxitec’s safe, sustainable and targeted biological pest control technology is harmless to local ecosystems and beneficial species, like butterflies and bees. Learn more ⤵️  https://lnkd.in/dZHkVN4A #MosquitoControl #Sustainability #Innovation 

Cutting malaria by 90% by 2030 could boost the economies of malaria-endemic countries by an incredible $142.7 billion, according to recent research by Malaria No More UK. This research indicates that an additional $31bn could be generated in exports to some of the most affected malaria-endemic countries in Africa; with an almost $4bn rise for G7 countries, almost $1.5bn for the US, and more than $450m for the UK. The benefits of falling malaria rates would be felt across the world. We’re committed to working with urgency to bring new solutions to help #EndMalaria. Oxitec’s FriendlyMosquito malaria program targets two malaria-spreading mosquito species that threaten communities and pose major challenges to the international community’s regional malaria eradication goals: Anopheles stephensi, and Anopheles albimanus. We’re working with world-class partners, setting our sights on malaria-spreading mosquitoes, which are adapting rapidly. To outpace them, we’re forging new ways of working together. 🌍 https://lnkd.in/gCx6uZig

Seeking to join a global team working on some of the biggest challenges to food sustainability and human health on the planet? Oxitec is expanding globally and we’re seeking two senior business development leaders in #Agriculture and #PublicHealth who have a proven track record of building strategic #partnerships, collaborations & moving new technologies into new markets. Candidates should enjoy working in an exciting, fast-moving and collaboration-centered culture, and be ready to help us build trust with our partners and our customers. Join us! Apply below ⤵️ Director of Global Business Development – Vector Control: https://lnkd.in/eWEjKCUR Director of Global Business Development – Agriculture: https://lnkd.in/eh-AS7KE #Hiring #Startups #Biotech #Malaria #Dengue #FoodSecurity #PestControl #VectorControl

“The mosquito campaign is a race against the clock. ⏲️🦟 The insects are becoming more resistant to traditional prevention methods, while the #ClimateCrisis has opened up new regions where they can thrive.” We’re thankful to Michael Peel of the Financial Times for featuring Oxitec’s Friendly™ mosquitoes in his latest piece on the race against time to defeat mosquito-borne disease, highlighting the importance of #innovative tools in the fight to end #malaria & #dengue. Oxitec’s #FriendlyMosquitoes are already proven against the dengue-spreading mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and we’re working with urgency to scale our solution to protect households, communities & businesses across Brazil. In May, we launched the first pilot releases of Friendly™ Anopheles stephensi in Djibouti, bringing us one step closer to joining the fight to #EndMalaria. Read the piece ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/dufDiQNb #AedesDoBem #GlobalHealth #EndDengue #PublicHealth #Malaria

At Oxitec, we’re proud of the amazing challenges our colleagues take on around the world 🌍 Elin Cunningham is a Research Scientist in our team in Oxford, working on stopping the spread of #malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi. This July, Elin is embarking on an expedition to row down the Zambezi river in Mozambique, raising money for clean water. Click below support her expedition: https://lnkd.in/enAZeay9

Explore our latest special edition newsletter on the Djibouti Friendly™ Mosquito Program!  The newsletter outlines the first releases of Friendly™ mosquitoes in Djibouti to combat invasive #malaria vector Anopheles stephensi, the rising threat posed by Anopheles stephensi, media coverage & more!  Read more⤵ #EndMalaria #Innovation #FriendlyMosquitoes

“I'm dedicated to developing safe and innovative solutions to fight #malaria in Djibouti, my home country” Learn about Deka Hassan in our latest #OxitecPeople piece, where she discusses what being a field scientist entails, what she enjoys about her role and advice for those aspiring to join her field of work! Deka is part of the team driving an innovative solution for the invasive #malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, which threatens more than 100 million people across East Africa. Learn more about Deka’s work ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/e2r72keh #EndMalaria #FriendlyMosquitoes #Innovation

📈 Brazil has exceeded 5 million #dengue cases in 5 months, with health officials linking this spike to #ElNiño and #ClimateChange. In the face of a changing planet, innovative tools are essential to fight the mosquitoes spreading disease.  Oxitec is working around the clock to deploy #FriendlyMosquitoes, proven to reduce populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which spread dengue, Zika and chikungunya.  Recently, Natalia Verza Ferreira of Oxitec do Brasil was invited by the Federal Government’s Commission on Science, Technology, Innovation and Informatics (CCT) to participate in discussions on innovative tools to fight dengue in Brazil. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dg-CFGES   

🎙🎙🎙 Our launch of our first #malaria-focused solution in #Djibouti generated headlines around the world last week. We received a number of good questions from various corners of the world about the basics, so for those interested in a quick primer on what we're doing, I joined the The Naked Scientists from University of Cambridge for a nice discussion on the basics - what Oxitec's technology is, why we're focused on the dangerous and spreading malaria vector #Anophelesstephensi, why we're working in Djibouti first, and why this work is so important...and urgent. It's a quick and easy one. I hope you enjoy! #malaria #dengue #climate #sustainability Stephanie Wilkes Moumtzis Neil Morrison Jéssica Teixeira Nathan R Rose Rakim Turnipseed, Ph.D. Jackson Nyarko Deka Hassan Dawn Muddyman, PhD Zoe Barnes Maxine Mitchell Mattia Poletto Daniel Wanderley Adriana Capella Natalia Verza Ferreira Bouh Abdi Khaireh, MD, PhD