KCCR – Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine

Charité University Team Visits KCCR to Support Vaccine Research

March 27, Kumasi – A delegation from Charité University in Germany, led by world-renowned Virologist Prof. Christian Drosten, visited the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medic

Workshops on Data Analysis and Epidemiology Held in Assin Fuso and Kumasi

Two workshops on data analysis and epidemiology were recently organized by the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group in Collaboration with the Bernhard Notch Institute of Tropical Medicine to enhance

SPI-BIOPEDTB Project Trains Clinicians on Safe Sputum Induction in Children with Tuberculosis

The SPI-BIOPEDTB Project is a GSK Africa Open Lab-funded project that aims to improve childhood tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in Ghana by implementing and evaluating a sputum-induction algori

Highlights from KCCR’s NGS and Bioinformatics Workshop

The KCCR Labs team successfully hosted an engaging 5-day workshop on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics. Held from November 25 to 29, 2024, at KCCR, the work

Educate, Advocate, Act – Taking a Stand Against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for AMR Week 2024

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing global health challenges of our time as microbes increasingly evolve resistance to treatments that were once successfully controlled. This g

From Fleming's Warning to a Global AMR Crisis: Rising Threats of Antibiotic Resistance Across Communities and Wildlife

Did you know? Alexander Flemming discovered the first antibiotic in 1928, called penicillin, but warned about AMR in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: ‘The time may come when penicillin can be bou

Research Groups

KCCR hosts research groups for diverse studies, advancing the health needs of Ghana and the globe at large.

Lab & Diagnostic Services

KCCR provides laboratory facilities for Bacteriology, Immunology, Parasitology, Entomology, Molecular Biology and a large Cold Room for storage.

News, Events & Opportunities

To promote teaching and training activity, news of academic excellence and opportunities for health research training as well as postgraduate training.

KCCR COVID-19

Coronaviruses are large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases……

KCCR Graduates

KCCR has been helping to build and inspire the capacity of the next generation of biomedical scientists through teaching and learning within the larger university.

Explore our state-of-the-art facilities including our labs, guest house, transport, cafeteria and our data management store.

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Charité University Team Visits KCCR to Support Vaccine Research

March 27, Kumasi – A delegation from Charité University in Germany, led by world-renowned Virologist Prof. Christian Drosten, visited the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) as part of efforts to strengthen vaccine research in Ghana. The visit focused on building partnerships and sharing knowledge to help advance local research capabilities. He […]