Members of the Department Prof. Walter Jaoko, Prof. Omu Anzala and Prof Julius Oyugi were both recently featured on the Alper Doger (AD) Scientific Index 2022 ranking.
The University of Nairobi had a total of 18 scientists across various disciplines in the top 50 rankings with both department members on the list.
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research are co-hosting a Webinar on In-Vitro Antiplasmodial Activity and Phytochemical Investigations of Plant Extracts as part of Euginia Makinia's PhD proposal defence on Friday the 6th of May 2022 at 7am EAT.
You can join this Zoom Webinar here
Member of the Department & Director KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research Prof. Walter Jaoko was one of the ten individuals who were honoured at the Ten out of Ten (10/10) Awards held at the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, London on 9th September, 2019.
The Ten out of Ten Awards aims at facilitating an important conversation about the intersection that must converge in order to meet the UN targets of globally ending all new HIV diagnosis by 2030.
Members of the Department Prof. Walter Jaoko and Prof. Omu Anzala were both recently featured on the Alper Doger (AD) Scientific Index 2022 ranking.
The University of Nairobi had a total of 18 scientists across various disciplines in the top 50 rankings with both department members on the list.
Department Chair Dr. Marianne Mureithi spoke at the Its Up To Us Public Awareness Webinar whose aim is to enable teachers on the African Continent to be prepared to perform their roles as leaders
This COVID-19 Webinar arranged by African Union, African CDC, MasterCard Foundation, Shule Africa and Global Peace Foundation
Department Chair Dr. Marianne Mureithi was featured on the BBC World Service as part of The SheWord, a pan African programme exploring the life experiences of women in today's Africa. Dr. Mureithi discussed why it's harder for women to access funding for scientific research.
The interview can be viewed here
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research are hosting a webinar on Blocking Inflammation as a HIV Prevention Tool and other stories hosted by Dr. Marianne Mureithi and Delories Sikuku with guest speaker Prof. Keith Fowke, Chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology University of Manitoba, Canada
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology will be co-hosting a webinar on Sex Differences in Antiviral Immunity. The Speaker will be Prof. Dr. Marcus Altfeld, the head of the Research Department of Viral Immunology at Leibniz Institute of Experimental Virology. He is also the Director at the Institute of Immunology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology will be co-hosting a webinar on The Vaginal Microbial & Immune Milieu as Determinants of HIV Acquisition--opportunities for interventions. The Speaker will be Prof. Lyle McKinnon, an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba
It was all smiles as the Department of Microbiology and Immunology celebrated outstanding performance in the University of Nairobi staff awards.
The Department emerged the as the best overall performing unit and best performing teaching department in the performance contracting awards category.
The Chair of the Department Dr. Marianne Mureithi thanked all the staff, students and the collaborating partners for making the Department shine.
