Our Achievements

Research Capacity

Laboratory equipment

  • Bio-safety cabinets
  • Light and fluorescence microscopes
  • Ultra-low temperature freezers
  • QBC/Drucker hematology instruments
  • Bench-top centrifuges
  • Liquid nitrogen shippers and tanks
  • Portable ultrasound units and core biopsy guns
  • CO2 incubators
  • Rotary microtomes

Technical training for:

  • Health Researchers
  • Doctors
  • Laboratory technicians
  • Nurses
  • Research Project Managers

Transport

  • Research vehicles

Research

  • Ethical approval in 4 countries
  • Established six active field sites
  • Spotted over 1,600 cases
  • Randomly selected 300 control villages
  • Collected over 30,000 biological samples

Mentoring/leadership

  • Principal investigator training
  • Study standardization meetings (weekly calls, bi-annual conferences)
  • EMBLEM scientific updates (Gulu, Uganda - 2010; Mwanza, Tanzania,2012; Kisumu, Kenya, 2014)
  • International scientific meetings participation
  • African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer – 2011, 2013, 2015
  • International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium 2013

Collaboration

National Institutes of Health Partners

  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (ethics, logistics, magnesium studies)
  • Fogarty International Center (Principal investigator training)
  • Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (consortium support)
  • Center for Cancer Genomics (BL genome sequencing)
  • Center for Information Technology (ultrasound fixation assisted micro tissue processor)

Non-NIH Partner Projects

  • Ohio State University (BL diagnosis)
  • Partec/Sysmex (malaria diagnosis)
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (molecular staging of BL)