KNUST Bids Farewell to German Ambassador at Cocktail Reception
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi has honoured outgoing German Ambassador to Ghana, Daniel Krull, at a farewell cocktail reception hosted by the university’s International Programmes Office and the German Alumni Association of KNUST at the Senior Staff Club House. The event was attended by provosts of Colleges, university officials, dignitaries, […]
Prof Alexander Debrah wins 50,000 Euros EDCTP Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi Prize for Global Health contributions
Professor Alexander Yaw Debrah, The group leader of the Filariasis research has been awarded the prestigious EDCTP Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi Prize 2025. The award was announced and presented on 15th June 2025 at the Kigali, Rwanda Convention centre. This prize recognizes Professor Debrah’s exceptional achievements in advancing global health research and capacity development across Africa, […]
ADAPT One Health Network Holds 2025 Annual General Meeting in Kumasi
The African One Health Network for Disease Prevention (ADAPT) held its Annual General Meeting from Monday, May 19 to Friday, May 23, 2025, at the Lancaster Hotel in Kumasi, Ghana. This year’s meeting brought together consortium members from seven African countries—Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, and Ghana—as well as […]
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 […]
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 research and data management skills among hospital and research staff. The first workshop, a 2-day session on the basic principles of data analysis, was held at St. […]
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 algorithm. The project also aims to investigate immune biomarkers in children with pulmonary TB. The project is a collaboration between KCCR, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi South Hospital, and Maternal and […]
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 workshop emphasized the application of NGS techniques to study bacterial and viral pathogens responsible for diseases. It brought together participants from diverse backgrounds, eager to […]
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 growing resistance poses escalating risks to human health, agriculture, and ecosystems widely. World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024, under the theme “Educate, Advocate, Act,” seeks to highlight […]
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 bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes […]
Illumina Sequencing Team Visits KCCR for Seminar on Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
On 8th October 2024, the staff and students at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) welcomed a team from Illumina Sequencing for an insightful seminar on Illumina’s innovative solutions in the fields of infectious diseases and microbiology. The event took place at the KCCR Seminar Room. The Illumina team, comprising Dr. Lydia Hadjeras, Genomic […]