Dr. Michael Frimpong, a Senior Scientist at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), and a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been named among the second cohort of ten fellows for the 2020 African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The African Academy […]
Read MoreWALK-IN COVID-19 TESTING AT KCCR KCCR offers a Walk-in Service for COVID-19 PCR Testing for members of the general public for traveling purposes everyday including weekends and holidays from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Download information on how to get the test done
Read MoreThe German Government has made available a grant of €650,000 to boost the capacity of the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) The support was announced by the German Embassy in Ghana, which said the grant is a rapid response measure to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana. The Embassy […]
Read MoreBackground Coronaviruses are large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases. They often circulate among camels, cats, and bats, and can sometimes evolve and infect people. Seven known coronaviruses can infect humans, including the novel coronavirus identified in 2019. The official name for the novel coronavirus disease […]
Read MoreThe Filariasis project at KCCR is celebrating its 20th anniversary of research collaboration with the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital, Bonn, Germany. The first part of the celebration took place at University Hospital Bonn, Germany on Monday, 9th of September 2019. The second part of this anniversary will be held […]
Read MoreThe ASAAP project – a multi-country, multi-site clinical study to evaluate a new malaria triple therapy for children – has its kick-off meeting today in Accra, Ghana. The project is led and coordinated by Dr Oumou Maiga-Ascofaré of the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR; Kumasi, Ghana) under the authority of the Kwame […]
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As a measure to strengthen the capacities to conduct cutting-edge immunological research on site, the KCCR was recently equipped with a modern multicolour Beckman Coulter Cytoflex S flow cytometer, which was funded by the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF). A workshop was conducted on the 15th of November 2018 for KCCR scientists and students […]
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