The Center for Genomic Biology was established under the partnership between INES-Ruhengeri, Brown University, and North Carolina University in the USA. Currently, the Center starts by the project assessing the Artemisinin resistance in Rwanda and neighboring countries as Malaria is a serious human killer in the region. It is a project for 4 years.
“It is the capacity that will leverage DNA technologies to measure how the mosquitoes causing malaria are mutating over time. We will not only measure that one but we will also map the resistance across the whole country in Rwanda from East to West, from North to south; from every corner of Rwanda”, Dr. Jean Baptiste Mazarati, Chairman of INES Council revealed.