Call for applications: The Africa CDC Launches short-course training in vaccine manufacturing standard practices (GxP) at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)
Background The African Union (AU)/ Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have called for a New Public Health Order which will safeguard the health and economic security of the continent as it strives to meet the aspirations of Agenda 2063. A key pillar of this mandate seeks to expand the local manufacture […]
Training workshop on Strengthening Microbial Risk Assessment for Food Safety and AMR held at NMIMR
A four-day training workshop on “Strengthening Microbial Risk Assessment for Food Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance Using Portable DNA Sequencing Technology” was organized in the Institute from 22nd – 25th May, 2023 with funding support from FAO and SeqAfrica/Fleming Fund. Facilitators and training participants in a lab at the Advanced Research Laboratories, NMIMR The workshop equipped […]
NMIMR Receives Funding from BMGF to Conduct Research on Human Malaria Infection
The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMFG) to conduct research on Human Malaria Infection. The project “Collection of Pf field isolates in Ghana for CHMI studies”, an extension of the long-standing relationship between NMIMR and BMGF, is expected to run from April 2023 to […]
Prof. William K. Ampofo Inaugurated as Board Member and CEO of the National Vaccine Institute
Prof. William Kwabena Ampofo, immediate past Head of Department of Virology at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has been sworn-in by the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a Board member and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a thirteen (13) member governing board of the National Vaccine Institute […]
His Excellency Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan, Visits NMIMR
The Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Fumio Kishida, as part of a two-day official visit to Ghana visited the Institute on 1st May 2023. This was his first ever visit to Ghana. H. E Kishida was welcomed by Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana and Prof. Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Director […]
Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement – NMIMR Celebrates World Malaria Day 2023
World Malaria Day is observed annually across the globe on 25 April, to bring global attention to the efforts being made to bring an end to malaria, and encourage action to reduce suffering and death from the disease. Embracing this year’s theme: ‘Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement’, the Institute observed the day […]
Afrique One – REACH Call for fellowships 2023
NMIMR Scientists and Partners Receive Funding from Expertise France for a Cervical Cancer Prevention Study in Women Living with HIV
A team of scientists from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana, in collaboration with the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre (CCPTC) at the Catholic Hospital, Battor, Volta Region and the National AIDS and STIs Control Programme (NACP), are leading operational research to ascertain how cervical cancer screening could be […]
Scientists at the Parasitology Department to establish an in-vitro high content phenotypic screening system in Ghana
22nd March 2023 A team of scientists from the Parasitology Department of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, are conducting research on the ‘Establishment of an in-vitro high content phenotypic screening system for anti-cryptosporidial natural products-based drug discovery in Ghana’. The one-year project has an estimated funding amount of 10,000.00 pounds sterling […]
Vestergaard and NMIMR renew partnership to bolster malaria vector control
23 March 2023, Accra, Ghana – Vestergaard, a leader in public health solutions and the largest manufacturer of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs), announced today a renewed, strategic partnership with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana to strengthen the development of innovative vector control tools for the prevention of malaria […]