Latest updates about the lab

Health Personnel training on Blood Culture at Centre Pasteur of Cameroon

On July 10th, 2024, the laboratory manager of the IBHI unit and Merck-funded PhD fellow, Mr. Leonel KAMGUIA, attended a training session on blood culture at the conference room of the Centre Pasteur of Cameroon (CPC) along with 80 healthcare personnel from various health facilities in Yaoundé. This session was organized by the bacteriology-parasitology-mycology laboratory […]

Mastering PCR Primer Design: A Hands-On Training Session at IMPM

On Friday, April 26th, 2024, the IMPM conference hall hosted a practical training session on PCR primer design, led by Dr. Emmanuel KAGNING TSINDA, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-based Cameroonian scientist focused on viral genome sequencing and pharmaceutical quality control.

qPCR  training is in full swing at the laboratory of molecular biology and biotechnology/IBHI unit

During two consecutive days organized by the Inqaba Biotec CAF team, 10 selected IBHI lab and associated members participated in an enriching training session on real-time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (rt-qPCR), exploring the theoretical foundations, practical applications, and data analysis techniques of qPCR associated with genetic expression.

Strengthening research capacities: an intermediate level biostatistics training

The organization EVIDENCE for RESEARCH headed by Mr. Irénée Domkam, conducted a one-week biostatistics hands-on training course from the 10th -14th of July 2023 at IMPM for the members of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and the Unit of Immunobiology and Helminthes Infection. The course commenced with an introduction to descriptive statistics and progressed to inferences in statistics, followed by an in-depth exploration of R programming and data analysis using R Studio. Participants gained essential statistical skills and hands-on experience, enabling them to effectively handle and interpret data for research purposes. The capacity-building initiative is expected to foster the team expertise and enhance the quality of biomedical research results produced locally.

Real-time qPCR training of IBHI staff on BioRAD CFX-96 by Inqaba Biotec Central Africa

Following a Merck KgaA Global Health Institute-funded acquisition of a real-time qPCR BioRAD CFX-96, All staff of the IBHI Unit and the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Lab of IMPM, MINRESI were trained on the use of the instrument by Inqaba Biotec (Central and West African branches).

The training took place in two sessions: a theorical session on the basics (purpose, generality on PCR , equipment handling) and a practical session on a test run of COVID-19 diagnostic by qPCR on human patients RNA samples.

Evidence4research training in bio-statistics at IBHI lab.

IBHI lab achieved one of his mission on capacity building of researchers in Biostatistics. Evidence4research led by their head data scientist M. IRENE DOMKAM carried out this second training session on February 20-21st, 2023 at the IBHI laboratory site in Yaounde.