JPIAMR 13th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Nairobi
• Country: Kenya (KE)

Research area

• Scientific area(s):
  1. Design, implement, evaluate, and compare innovative interventions to control the development and transmission of AMR
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health

• Keywords:

  bacterial infections AMR phytochemistry Traditional medicine drug synergism

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Fieldwork and Electronic-based data collection, correlation, interpretation and analysis, ethnobotanical surveys, systematic reviews, laboratory techniques (plant preparation, extraction, phytochemical analysis and pharmacological assays and biochemical techniques)

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  focuses on synergism between combinations of natural products/ bioactive plant extracts with standard antibiotic drugs. Drug combination is a novel strategy employed to control the spread of antibiotic resistance and to cure for serious infections thus both synergistic extract-extract and extract-antibiotic combinations may present a possible solution to combat antibiotic resistance.

elizabeth odongo

• Organisation: University of Nairobi
• Position: PhD student
• E-mail: lizzieodongo@gmail.com
• Phone: +254715683443