Support renewed for Kenya Programme

01 November 2010

Our Major Overseas Programme in Kenya continues to make important contributions to tropical medicine and has been awarded £32.5 million to support its activities for the next five years.

A collaboration between the University of Oxford and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme studies conditions such as malaria, bacteraemias, respiratory syncytial viral infections, HIV and malnutrition. A separate £1.2m award will establish a new link between the Programme and Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, focusing on research into sickle-cell disease

Image: Sickle cell with normal red blood cells. Credit: . EM Unit, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Wellcome Images