The Institut des Sciences et Techniques (INSTech) is a research institute for health science in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. INSTech (in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé) has co-hosted the EUFP7 funded project TransMalariaBlock, which established the expertise on malaria transmission blocking assays by vaccines, drugs and immune mosquitoes. This project has provided a platform for training on entomology and precisely on membrane feeding assays to several African partners.