Beit Trust Masters & PhD Scholarships 2023/2024 for African Students from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia| Deadline – February 20, 2023 READ MORE Call for applications – UK Commonwealth Scholarships 2023 (Fully-Funded Masters Read More
Macrophage Polarization in Placental Malaria Pathogenesis
PI: Dr. Caroline Kijogi Donor/Funder: EDCTP – European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Reference: TMA 2018 CDF – 2835 Duration: 2020-2023 Summary of the Project Macrophages account for one of Read More
MKU gets 15 Million grant from Innovate UK to develop fruit fly bait
Mount Kenya University (MKU) has a won a grant from innovate UK; part of UK Research and Innovation to develop a novel product for management of fruit fly. The grant Read More
Fighting Cancer using Green Bullets
The side effects of chemotherapy are also undesirable and effective cure is not guaranteed particularly when the disease is diagnosed at advanced stages. A sizeable number of cancer patients have Read More
Bungoma County Neonatal Project
MKU has rolled out a good number of community outreach programmes with resounding success. To start with, in Bungoma county, the university is raising the capacity of hospitals (under the Read More
MKU lecturer wins Ksh10m grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Jesse Gitaka, a lecturer and research fellow at Mount Kenya University is a recipient of the Grand Challenges Exploration award for 2015 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read More
MKU Innovators design a locally assembled ventilator
Mount Kenya university group mainly technicians and Medical engineers have also reacted quickly to the heightened demand for ventilators due to the Covid-19 outbreak. This week started producing their first Read More
DVC in training workshop on science communication
MKU participated in a media communication training workshop for scientists held in Nairobi recently. The university was represented by Prof. John Nderitu, Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of linkages and resource Read More
Purchase guarantees can boost
Enhancing the business relationships between farm producers and processors can go a long way in improving sustainability and profitability in the local agricultural sector. Prof. John Nderitu, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Read More
6th Africa nutritional epidemiology conference
This was a five day conference which was held on 21st – 25th July 2014 in Accra Ghana. The conference provided an important forum for insightful deliberations from the African Read More