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CURRENT PROGRAM FOCUS

Social Intelligence

Mapping social determinants and diseases into specific contexts

Nutrition
Human-centered design of nutrition interventions
Drug resistance
Learning algorithms to understand shared patterns and propose solutions
Malaria Control
Adaptive Malaria diagnostic algorithms (adapt in time and space) 
Cancer Research
Understand the commonality in multiple cancer types to facilitate integrated solution  

CURRENT PROJECTS

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Availing more options for malaria vector control by recombining solutions through nanotechnology

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  • Modelling a synergy of mosquito killing and repellent Essential oils

  • Opting for indoor and outdoor options in combination with other interventions

  • Collaboration with local industry

2.

Use of positive deviance to establish sustainable nutrition intervention

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  • Focusing on the positive outliers

  • Understand why good nutrition despite the poor conditions

  • Build and verify assumptions

  • Escalate

3.

Understand the commonality in multiple cancer types to facilitate integration.

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Universal biomarkers in Cancer diagnosis and therapy: Case of MAGE epitopes: 

  • Mapping common MAGE protein domain patterns in publicly available  biological data from African cancer patients

  • Design diagnostic and therapy options targeting them

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