17th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR Interventions 2024 (IMPACT)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Kenya Medical Research Institute
• Country: Kenya (KE)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: Design novel or improved interventions to prevent, mitigate and /or treat fungal infections, which are resistant to treatments and/or are at risk of developing resistance
• Subtopics:

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wildlife, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)

• Keywords:

  drug resistance drug discovery assay development antimicrobials

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  My research strengths are in drug discovery research. I have strong expertise in the design and implementation of cell-based, biochemical, and protein assays for drug screening in medium and high-throughput platforms.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  My expertise will be helpful in a project that is seeking to design and develop new antimicrobials and elucidate their molecular mechanisms of action to combat the emergence of resistance.

Dr. Juliann Makau

• Organisation: Kenya Medical Research Institute
• Position: Assistant Principal Research Scientist
• E-mail: jnzembi@kemri.go.ke