Research SOE

Assoc. Prof. Charles B. Niwagaba

Water, Behaviour Change and Environmental Sanitation (WABES): Sustainable Solutions to Research, Knowledge and Professionalization – Integrated Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste Services (INTEGRATE).

Funder: Swiss Development and Cooperation, through Eawag; Switzerland

Assoc. Prof. Charles B. Niwagaba

RECLAIM of nutrients – digitalisation of a collaboration game for resource recovery in sanitation. Duration is 2022-2024, worth

Funder: FORMAS (Swedish Research Council), Sweden

Assoc. Prof. Umaru Bagampadde

Collaboration for Active Mobility in Africa (CAMA) under the program Partnerships for sustainable solutions in sub-Sahara Africa from 2021 to 2024 wort.

Funder: Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany/ DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 

Dr. Robinah Kulabako

Sustaining urban low-cost water supplies and sanitation systems in Africa (AfriWatSan Project)

Funder: University College of London (UK), Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), University of Nairobi (Kenya), Makerere University (Uganda)/ UK Royal Society – DFID 

Dr. Swaib Semiyaga

Transfer of the Delft-based programs and courses in Sanitation as part of the project “Transfer of the New MSc Program in Sanitation to South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – Global Sanitation Graduate School (GSGS)

Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Development of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles from steel waste for Applications in Drinking Water Treatment

Funder: Science, Technology and Innovation – Office of the President (STI-OP)

Development of Zeolite-Based Nanocomposite Filters for Drinking Water Treatment in Ugand.

Funder: Makerere Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) -Call 3 

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Development and production of medical and biomedical plastic supplies in Uganda.

Funder: STI-OP

Co. PI Makerere University.

Development of Zeolite-Based Nanocomposite Filters for Drinking Water Treatment in Ugand.

Funder: Makerere Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) -Call 3 

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Evaluation of nanoscale materials as candidate adjuvants and delivery systems for SARS CoV-2 sub unit vaccine in humanized mice

Funder: PRESIDE/STI-OP

Beyond the networked city: Building innovative delivery systems for water, sanitation and energy in urban Africa (Off Grid Project)

Funder: University of Bristol (UK), Loughborough University (UK), University of Capetown (South Africa), Sierra Leone Urban Resource Centre (Sierra Leone) & Makerere University (Uganda)/The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Prof. J.B Kirabira

MAPRONANO ACE – various

Funder: World Bank/GoU

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Extraction Of Saponins from Locally Available Plants for Vaccine and Drug Delivery

Funder: GOU

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Extraction Of Saponins from Locally Available Plants for Vaccine and Drug Delivery

Funder: GOU

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Valorization of Cassava Peels for Abatement of Active Pharmaceutical Contaminants from Water Systems in Uganda

Funder: MakRIF

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Scaling: Valorization of Cassava Peels for Abatement of Active Pharmaceutical Contaminants From Water Systems in Uganda

Funder: MakRIF

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Design Review and Development of a Self-Disinfecting Glove

Funder: MakRIF

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Design Review and Development of a Self-Disinfecting Glove

Funder: MakRIF

Prof. J.B Kirabira

Inclusive Markets for Energy Efficiency in Uganda (IMEU)

Funder: Sida/Swedish Embassy

Dr. M. Lubwama

Enhanced Flame Retarding of Bio composite Plastic Developed with Rice husks and Clay fillers

Funder: Volkswagen foundation 

Dr. M. Lubwama

Bio photier Devolopment from agricultural remainder in Uganda

Funder: Swedish Research council 

Dr. M. Lubwama

MAPRONANO-ACE

Funder: World Bank

Dr. P. W. Olupot

Metallization of Ugandan Iron Ores

Funder: Science, Technology and Innovation, Office of the President of Uganda

Dr. P. W. Olupot

Iron oxide-based Nanocomposite bio-adsorbents for water treatment

Funder: EPFL- Switzerland/EXAF

Dr. P. W. Olupot

Renewable Energies for Africa: Effective Valorisation of Agri-food Wastes- REFFECT AFRICA

Funder: University of Jaen Spain and 28 other partners/European Commission Horizon 2020

Dr. P. W. Olupot

Optimisation of Recirculating Water Treatment Process for a Smart Communal Hand Washing System

Funder: University of Kassel, Germany/Volkswagen Foundation

Dr. P. W. Olupot

Technology for application of activated carbons from rice husks in water treatment

Funder: RIF/ Makerere Uni

Dr. B. Nabuuma

TUM-SEED PROJECT

Funder: DAAD

Dr. H. Kasedde

Inclusive Markets for Energy Efficiency in Uganda

Funder: Swedish Embassy

Dr. H. Kasedde

LEAP-RE

Funder: EU

Dr. N. Mukasa

Green Synthesis of Graffin using Agro-waste

Funder: Makerere University RIF Fund

Assoc. Prof. Dorothy Okello

Open Source Design of a Decontamination Device for Personal Protective Equipment

Funder: NRF, South Africa

Dr. Jonathan Serugunda

Machine Learning-guided Screening of COVID-19 using Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Uganda

Funder: Mak RIF

Assoc. Prof. Dorothy Okello

Integrating REsilience and SUstainability in the pLanning for infrasTructure projectS in Uganda (RESULTS)

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering

Assoc. Prof. Dorothy Okello

Development of an Efficacious Patient Management System for Uganda using Machine Learning Techniques.

Funder: Mak RIF

Andrew Katumba

ICT Platform for the Pathogen Economy

Funder: STI Secretariat

Andrew Katumba

Machine learning- aided screening of tuberculosis from chest X-rays

Funder: Mak RIF

Andrew Katumba

End-to-End Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data systems for targeted surveillance and management of COVID-19 and future pandemics COAST Project

Funder: IDRC

Andrew Katumba

A computer-aided diagnosis system for cervical cancer from colposcopic images

Funder: Mak RIF

Andrew Katumba

Building NLP Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages in East Africa

Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org and Rockefeller Foundation

Cosmas Mwikirize

Deep learning-based detection of COVID-19 from lung ultrasound images

Funder: IDRC (COAST Project), MAK RIF-2

Cosmas Mwikirize

Automated recognition of suspicious lesions in breast ultrasound images

Funder: Carnegie Corporation (SECA), UNESCO TWAS

Cosmas Mwikirize

A smart portable ultrasound for guidance of minimally invasive procedures

Funder: Mak RIF

Cosmas Mwikirize

Automated Screening of Prostate Cancer from Multiparametric MRI Sequences

Funder: Mak RIF

Edwin Mugume

Urban Heat Island: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Implications for Human Thermal Comfort in Kampala

Funder: Mak RIF

Jane Namaganda, Josephine Kakande

Integration of on-grid and off-grid decentralised renewable energy systems in Uganda

Funder: Mak RIF

Ronald Kizito

A Luganda Neural Text-to-Speech system for Health promotion and Accessibility.

Funder: Mak RIF