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World Bank-funded Training and Research Centre for generating knowledge and skills for infectious disease prevention and control.
Core to advance, validate, and standardize traditional medicine and biopharmaceuticals in Africa. It serves as a regional platform for training, research, and innovation to improve health outcomes and reduce reliance on imported medicines.
Center runs three activities namely bringing innovation into teaching and learning, research and training, and community engagement.
Provides infrastructure for training, research, and innovation to enhance agricultural productivity in East/Southern Africa. Key facilities include soil lab, feed mill, agricultural mechanization units, radio station for knowledge dissemination, and specialized training/hosting spaces for students and farmers.
Specialized hub funded by the World Bank to train high-level African professionals and researchers in IoT, while fostering innovation in fields like health, agriculture, and energy. It provides advanced laboratory equipment for master's/PhD programs, research, and technical incubation to create sustainable, low-cost technological solutions for the region. Enables practical experiments, product design, and collaboration with local/international partners.
World Bank-supported regional center of excellence focused on building capacity for clinical trials, and developing novel vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Provides training in clinical trials and translational medicine, to foster homegrown health solutions.Training researchers, scientists, and clinical trial staff across Africa in trial management, data management, and scientific writing.
Specialized research and training hub aimed at improving water resources, sanitation, and sustainable energy security across East and Southern Africa. Provides technical support, laboratory services (like Material Characterization), and consultancy to address regional development challenges.
World Bank-funded hub at the College of Science and Technology in Kigali.Provides interdisciplinary research and training in smart electrification, rural energy access, and sustainable energy management.Acts as a research hub for grid innovation and incubation, supported by international partnerships, including Italian research centers.Provides specialized training for experts in public, private, and academic institutions on topics like microgrid and smartgrid design.
Regional hub for research, specialized training, and consultancy in petroleum engineering, downstream hydrocarbons processing, and environmental management. As a key provider of technical expertise for the region, it drives innovation through MSc and PhD programs, professional training, and industrial research.
World Bank-funded initiative established to strengthen the aquaculture and fisheries sector in Eastern and Southern Africa.Services are focusing on fish breeding, biotechnology, feeds (like black soldier fly), and integrated fish-animal-crop systems to boost production.
Serves as a regional hub for developing sustainable agricultural solutions, bio-nanoscience, and climate resilience technologies in East and Southern Africa.Includes bio-repository for research and data repository to predict risks from climate variability. Works with partners such as the UNESCO National Commission in Tanzania and Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) to support malaria medicine discovery and regional nano-hubs.
Core to develop climate-smart agricultural practices, enhance biodiversity conservation, and build regional capacity to adapt to climate change.Serves as centralized facility offering specialized laboratory equipment, technologies, and modern teaching aids to support research activities.
Research and training hub to enhance food security and nutrition in Africa.Offers postgraduate training, conducting research on nutrient-dense crops, promoting indigenous knowledge, and strengthening partnerships with agricultural industries. Focuses on exploiting neglected, indigenous, and underutilized biodiversity through sustainable, nutrient-dense cropse, value addition, and postgraduate training to improve livelihoods.
One Health virtual research and training core to strengthen Africa's capacity to detect, identify, and monitor infectious diseases in humans and animals, serving the East and Southern African region.
Core mission is to train post-graduate students with combined expertise in statistics, economics, business, computer science, and engineering to use big data and data analytics to solve development challenges.ACE-DS has established a high-performance computing cluster comprising of one master node and four data nodes, all of which are equipped with NVIDIA GPUs for graphic acceleration.Data nodes are equipped with 32*2 cores of Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R processors, which provide a total of 640GB of RAM per node, making 10GB/core. Additionally, each of the data nodes has 50TB of storage, all of which is GPU-enabled.For moderate workloads, there are workstations available that feature an i9 processor, 64GB of RAM, and 10TB of storage.Provides desktop computers that users can utilize for their data science and artificial intelligence work.
Software application as open source research basecaller for Oxford Nanopore reads.
Provides optical microscopy tools to advance research in human cognition. Offers both commercial turnkey microscopes and in-house developments based on emerging techniques.
Nextflow pipeline to process whole genome long-read sequencing data generated in the context of ASAP project.
Core provides advanced computational analysis and consultation for high-throughput genomics and multi-omics research. Supports investigators across GW and external collaborators with experimental design, data processing, statistical analysis, and biological interpretation of next-generation sequencing datasets. Offers expertise in bulk and single-cell transcriptomics, epigenomics, variant analysis, and integrative multi-omics approaches. Develops and maintains reproducible computational pipelines and collaborates closely with researchers to translate complex genomic data into actionable biological insights.
Software aplication to predict scRNA-seq coverage and scATAC-seq insertion profiles along the genome at single-cell resolution. It leverages the pre-trained multi-omics profile predictor Borzoi as a foundation model, equips it with a cell-specific decoder, and fine-tunes its sequence embeddings.