Projects & Funders

Research projects receive core funding from local and international funding agencies and philanthropic organizations through competitive applications. Such funds support infrastructure and ensures sustainability in conducting excellent research and training the next generation of local scientists.

Malaria surveillance

  1. Genomics of drug and diagnostic resistance, Vaccine escape variants.
  2. Emergence of non-falciparum malaria (P. malariae, P. vivax and P. ovale).
  3. Vaccine hesitancy and immune response to vaccination.
  4. Therapeutic efficacy of antimalarial interventions.
  5. Antigenic variation and dry season malaria.
  6. Natural determinants of malaria transmission (Experimental infections).


     

Schistosome Biology

  1. Epidemiology and PZQ treatment efficacy.
  2. Schistosome hybridization and Zoonotic Schistosomiasis .
  3. Female Genital Schistosomiasis.
  4. Co-morbidities.
  5. Immunobiology of schistosomes.
  6. Circadian rhythms.

Antibiotic resistance

Climate change and Epidemics

Pathobiology of Enteric pathogen (cryptosporidiosis, Rotavirus)

Filariasis

Non-Communicable Diseases

Human genetics and disease susceptibility

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