Our Biotechnology M.Sc Program is Fully Accredited!
Sept. 2019 - Sept. 2024.
BY HCRERES
- AFRICA CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES AND FORENSIC BIOTECHNOLOGY
Research leading to development of drugs and vaccines for control and eradication of neglected tropical diseases: Trypanosomiasis, Lymphatic Filariaisis/Onchocerciasis and Rabies.
Training courses to impart skills and improve capacities of personnel involved in the health sector.
Providing a reliable template to address problems of NTDs and related issues and their impacts on the socio-economic and health of communities in concerned developing countries.
ACENTDFB is poised with a responsibility to conduct research that would illuminate complex molecular interactions between host and parasite with a view of developing potential vaccine targets and improved molecular diagnostics and identification of parasites in Trypanosomiasis, Filariasis and Rabies.
ACENTDFB graduate students would be distributed equitably among the three core research focus of the programme. Graduate students are supervised in a multidisciplinary approach to enable translational driven research.
Workshops, international conferences on NTDs and training programs on diverse topics in molecular biotechnology will be held not only in Nigeria but also in Cameroon, which will involve scientists from the international partners.
Research activities of the Centre are mainly directed on the following tropical diseases: Trypanosomiasis, Lymphatic Filariaisis/Onchocerciasis and Rabies. Other diseases recently included are Trachoma, Dengue and Schistosomiasis. Research is also ongoing in the area of forensic science with emphasis on genetic profiling.
One of the focus of this reseach is on molecular identification and characterization of trypanosoma parasites and to research into DNA-based vaccines using molecular targets capable of disrupting the life cycle of the parasite identified using novel approaches of molecular biology.
Our research unit, "Lympatic Filariasis", will carry out research focused on diagnosis and distribution of Filaria parasites in Nigeria and the sub-region. Vaccination experiments with other NTDs will be used to investigate this effect in novel DNA- and/or bionanoparticle-based vaccination strategies.
A key objective that will be pursued in this research area is to build on the existing groundwork for the development of recombinant DNA vaccine for rabies, anchored on the knowledge of circulating genotypes that is safe, stable and effective, in view of the problems attendant to the existing vaccine.
Our Courses are fully accredited, both M.Sc and PhD Programs
Sept. 2019 - Sept. 2024.
BY HCRERES
Sept. 2019 - Sept. 2024.
BY HCRERES
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