Makerere University Lecturer Dr. Julius Mulindwa, from the Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), together with colleagues; Prof. Nicolai Seigel at the University of Munchen, Germany, and Dr. Kevin Marucha at Kisii University, Kenya were recently awarded a research grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) amounting to 290,985 Euro.
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Out of this, 179,735 Euro is for the research activities that will be conducted at the Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, CoNAS.
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The research study is about, “Understanding cell to cell heterogeneity in African trypanosome field isolates”.
The benefits of this study to Makerere University will include:
- Capacity building in trypanosome single cell transcriptomics. This technic can be further exploited in other fields of research including cancer biology and it will be a great breakthrough if it is established at CoNAS.
- Training of a Ugandan PhD student and MSc students.
Building research networks and fostering collaborative research between Makerere University, LMU, Germany and Kisii University, Kenya.