Project title: Exploring immune responses in primary and more advanced Schistosoma mansoni infection and treatment of preschool-age children using Aurora spectral flow cytometry
Principal Investigator: Dr. Akusa Patrice Mawa
Sponsor: Uganda National Health Research Organisation
The diagnosis of HIV infection has played very critical roles over the past three decades in detecting and monitoring infection as well as patient management. As technology evolved, screening, confirmatory and HIV monitoring assays have greatly improved in terms of quality and speed.
Since its humble beginning in 1922, Makerere University has been able to transform communities and societies through its wealth of human capital, numerous research outcomes, and Science and Technological Innovations that have served Africa and the world in general.
Each year, 20th August is a global commemoration of the discovery in 1897 by Sir Ross that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. He proved that mosquitoes transmit malaria by identifying pigmented malaria parasites in mosquitoes that fed on an infected patient. This discovery revolutionized our knowledge of the disease and led to new preventive measures.
Thanks to the support of Sida (https://www.sida.se/en), TWAS (www.twas.org) has launched a new PhD Scholarship Programme, focusing on Climate Research for Students from Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Uganda Virus Research Institute(UVRI) earlier today endorsed a memmorandum of understanding with the University of Kisubi(Unik) in seeking to achieve a mutual objective of producing competent graduates with practical skills in the field of Biological Sciences and providing opportunities for collaborative programs on capacity building as may be availed by the Partners for the qualified and selec
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A team of ICT experts from Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) donated networking connectivity gadgets to UVRI to help the institute cope with increased bandwidth needs. These were handed over on 29th June 2022 by the CEO of RENU Nicholas Mbonimpa and received by the Executive Director Prof Pontiano Kaleebu at the UVRI office.
