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

General Information

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

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.
• Subtopics:
  1. Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

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

• Keywords:

  MDR bacterial strains Phage therapy Biobanking Next generation sequencing Nanopore sequencing

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

  My skills includes; bacteriophage isolation/exploration from the environment. transmission electron microscopy animal modelling for preclinical studies Molecular work (DNA extraction, electrophoresis) Phage purification

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

  I would like to antibacterial bio-exploration project targeting use of phages and their products to treat or control infectious bacterial pathogens.

Joseph Michael Ochieng Oduor

• Organisation: Kenya Institute of Primate Research & Egerton University
• Position: Research associate & lecturer
• E-mail: josemislredo@gmail.com
• Phone: +254759009055