🇨🇩 The @ucbukavu team represented DRC at the @EACCR4 Launch Meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, on 9–10 September.
Strengthening research capacity in Africa to improve health outcomes. 🌍
#EACCR4#GlobalHealth#Capaciy_Building
CTDGH celebrates Dr. Deborah Kabambi on completing her VERPI Visiting Researcher secondment at the University of St Andrews 🇬🇧, strengthening expertise in molecular diagnostics, Ebola and Mpox assay research. 🧬🌍
#VERPI#CTDGH#GlobalHealth
🚀 Launching today! 🎉
Our Internal Research Capacity Training (IRCT) starts today with two sessions!
Capacity building is key to growing a dynamic research community.
Link: https://t.co/T4MZ7v4I8v
Let’s learn together. 🔬🌍
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The OPTIC-TB 2nd Annual General Meeting took place in Zanzibar, Tanzania (29–30 April 2026), bringing together partners from Tanzania, Uganda, DR Congo, and Norway.
S T A I R S Project ✅🌡️🥼
At the 3rd STAIRS Consortium Meeting, held in Maputo, the team from the @CDTGH/ @ucbukavu: Prof. @Patrickdemarie, Dr @ADN_Nyalundja, and Mr. @AncertM —played an active role in the proceedings of a high level scientific meeting.
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The @CDTGH representatives presented the project’s major advances, highlighting innovative approaches to community engagement that are particularly well suited to contexts marked by security instability.
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A highlight of the meeting: Dr @ADN_Nyalundja received the Emmanuel Nsutebu Early Career Researcher Award, given to the best research in progress among STAIRS PhD Scholars for its quality, rigor, and potential impact. 🎉🎉🎉
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📢✅🧬 Great news from CTDGH🧬
This week marks a major step in strengthening nucleic acid extraction and amplification in our lab.
Thanks to our partnership with Genexpert (U) Limited, we’ve received the #Natch 48 and #SLAN-96P
systems.
Along this, a 3 days training.
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CTDGH/UCB at State-of-the-art MPox Symposium in Kin 🇨🇩 👏
Chaired and co-organized by Pr. @Patrickdemarie , this symposium provided a platform for the CTDGH research team to present key studies including SMART, MBOTE and PREGMPOX , led by Dr Guillaume A.S. and Dr Corneille L.Z.
L’UCB est honorée de prendre part à cet important cadre d’échanges scientifiques dédié à l’actualisation des connaissances sur le Mpox.
Cette participation témoigne de l’engagement continu de l’UCB en faveur de la recherche, de l’innovation et du service à la communauté.
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🚨 CTDGH–UCB at the Mpox Symposium in Kinshasa 🇨🇩.
Proud to announce @Patrickdemarie will speak at this major scientific event
The symposium highlights collective efforts against Mpox.
#GlobalHealth#Mpox#UCB
💫SkincAIr according to us💫
We meet the people behind SkincAIr and discover what makes the project so special.
We present Patrick de Marie Katoto, associate professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health at the @ucbukavu.
Watch his interview⤵️
https://t.co/lqNZIvSLt7
CTDGH's director, Prof Esto Bahizire, has presented the STAIRS #Sepis project to the South Kivu authorities during the Inter Agency Coordination meeting chaired by the vice-governor of the South Kivu province on Wednesday August 7, 2024. @ucbukavu@STAIRS_sepsis@Patrickdemarie
A new clinical trial due to launch in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries in Africa will assess whether an mpox vaccine can protect people against the disease after they have come into contact with the potentially deadly infection (1/6):
https://t.co/rf8gUFkIrS
The CTDGH team had a great meeting with His Excellency Dr Théophile Walulika Muzaliwa, the South Kivu minister of health. The researchers introduced the SMART project and other research projects within the center on mpox @BahizireEsto@espoir_bwenge@Patrickdemarie@ucbukavu
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