NIMR

Ongoing Projects

# Project Title Lead Lead Centre Funder Budget Funding Duration
1
Expansion of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (AMR) in Tanzania (Expand AMR)
John Lusingu
NIMR Tanga
Global Health Protection Programme (GHP)
€400,000
03/2023 to 02/2026
2
Strengthening environmental surveillance to advance public health action
Vito Baraka
NIMR Tanga
EDCTP3
€525,800.00
04/2023 to 03/2026
3
Severe Malaria treatment with Rectal artesunate and Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy [in remote settings]. (Acronym: SEMA ReACT).
Vito Baraka
NIMR Tanga
EDCTP3
€231,645.00
04/2023 to 03/2027
4
Climate Change and its Adverse Effects on the double burden of Malnutrition and Infectious Diseases among women of reproductive age in northeastern Tanzania
Daniel Minja
NIMR Tanga
Danida
DKK 3,000,000
01/2024 to 12/2027
5
Building resilient research ethics, Diagnostics and medicines regulatory capacity during routine and public health emergency periods (BREEDIME).
Elias Nyanda
NIMR Mbeya/NIMR Muhimbili
EDCTP3
€ 599 637.50.
1st June 2023 – 31st May 2026
6
A Phase IIb, Open-Label, Randomized Controlled Dose Ranging Multi-Centre Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Exposure-Response Relationship of different doses of BTZ-043 in combination with Bedaquiline and Delamanidin in Adult Subjects with Newly Diagnosed, Uncomplicated, Drug-sensitive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (DECISION Trial)
Lilian T Minja
NIMR Mbeya
The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
€ 12,000 per patient
2023- 2025
7
Medical and Environmental Anthropology for 21st Century East Africa
Peter Mangesho
NIMR Amani
NORAD
Norwegian Krone 20,000,000
Jan 2021 – Dec 2026.
8
Entomological evaluation by pool screening (o-150 PCR) to demonstrate the interruption of onchocerca volvulus transmission in stopping of ivermectin mass drug administration
Akili Kalinga
NIMR Headquarters
African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET/CDC)
Jan 2021–Dec 2025
9
Evaluation of OV16 ELISA serological prevalence of ≤2% in stopping mass drug administration (MDA) in Onchocerciasis elimination
Akili Kalinga
NIMR Headquarters
AFENET/CDC
$ 112,000
Jan 2021–Dec 2025
10
Suspected artemisinin resistance in Africa: Tracking its Emergence and Evolution in Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Deus Ishengoma
NIMR Headquarters
National Institute of Health
$121,825
2021-2025
11
Decentralized sequencing for infectious disease surveillance in Tanzania [SEQ-TZ]
Lucas Matemba
NIMR Dodoma
DANIDA
TZS 4,158,537
2021–2025
12
Implementation of Hydrocele Surgeries in Tanzania
Lucas Matemba
NIMR Dodoma
ENDFUND Foundation
TZS 38,078,110
2022-2024
13
The National Malaria Vector Entomology Surveillance (MVES)
William Kisinza
NIMR Amani
Ministry of Health, Tanzania NMCP
TZS 1,209,262,880.00
2023 – 2025
14
Insecticidal efficacy, physical degradation and fabric integrity of the standard pyrethroid long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) and new generation (Piperonyl
William Kisinza
NIMR Amani
Global fund through Ministry of Health, Tanzania NMCP
TZS. 120,960,000.00
Jan 2023 – Dec 2024.