Dr Samuel Odiwour has won a Science, technology and innovation Research Grant worth Sh0.7 million from the National Council of Science and technology (NCST). Odiwour, a lecturer in the department of Medical laboratory Sciences, will carry out the research as part of his post-doctoral studies. The title of his survey is: “Socio Epidemiological Survey and Parasite Molecular diversity determination within Re- emergent Rural Cutaneous leishmaniasis Foci”. The NCST chief executive officer, Prof Shaukat Abdulrazak congratulated Odiwour for the grant.