{"id":6001,"date":"2016-08-02T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ubuea.cm\/?page_id=6001"},"modified":"2016-08-02T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:33:37","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ubuea.cm\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nProject Title<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPI<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nSponsor<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nIntegrating waste-to-resource and renewable energy technologies in resource protection for sustainable development\u201d (PM-ET-BTU-UB-Albrecht<\/td>\nDr. Nkwatoh Athanasius Fuashi<\/td>\nGerman Ministry of Education and Resesearch (BMBF) through University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nUsing geospatial tools to investigate how defrorestation affects the transmission of malaria in birds.<\/td>\nDr. Anong Nota<\/td>\nNAS (National Academy of Sciences)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nMultimedia documentation of Babanki Ritual Speech<\/td>\nPius W. Akumbu<\/td>\nELDP, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nApplication of Molecular Biology Techniques to tropical diseases<\/td>\nProf. Vincent P.K Titanji<\/td>\nISP\/IPRCS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nRelationship between in utero exposure to malaria antigens immune responses of the newborn and disease susceptibility during the first years of life<\/td>\nDr. Eric Achidi<\/td>\nMIM\/TDR \/Grant for Malaria Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nUNICEF\/UNDP\/World Bank<\/td>\nDr. Eric Achidi<\/td>\nUNICEF\/UNDP\/World Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\nEuropean Union VARBO Project<\/td>\nDr. Samuel Wanji<\/td>\nEuropean Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\nEvaluation of the management of waste generated during palm oil production and utilization of composted empty fruit bunches in the Cameroon Development Corporation.<\/td>\nDr. yinda Godwin Sendze<\/td>\nCDC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nMedicine for malaria venture<\/td>\nProfessor Simon Efange<\/td>\nWHO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\nIFS Project (\u201cR\u00e9sistance des agents d\u2019infection urog\u00e9nitales aux antibiotiques: recherch\u00e9 de solutions dans quelques esp\u00e8ces des plantes m\u00e9dicinales du Cameroun\u201d)<\/td>\nDr. Assob Nguedia Jules Clement<\/td>\nInternational Foundation for Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.<\/td>\nGrand challenges in global health initiatives \u2013 Malaria GEN Project<\/td>\nDr. Eric Achidi<\/td>\nWellcome Trust-Oxford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.<\/td>\nPeaceful application of Nuclear techniques (Influence of seasonal changes in hydrology on nutrient-cycling in West African tropical mangroves.<\/td>\nDr. Tening Aaron<\/td>\nIAEA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.<\/td>\nTo establish a drug discovery centre at UB. Project titled \u201cscreening for macrofilaricidal drugs in onchocerciasis\u201d.<\/td>\nDr. Fidelis Cho Ngwa & Prof. Vincent P. K. Titanji<\/td>\nCELGENE corporation USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.<\/td>\nT-cell responses to variant surface antigens of Plasmodium falciparum<\/td>\nProfessor Vincent P.K. Titanji<\/td>\nMicrosoft Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15.<\/td>\nInfluenza surveillance in Cameroon<\/td>\nDr. Lucy Ndip<\/td>\nHenry Jackson Foundation (HJF), USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16.<\/td>\nCharacterization of erhlichia SPP infecting cattle in Cameroon<\/td>\nDr. Lucy Ndip<\/td>\nTWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17.<\/td>\nMalaria Pilot Community Research Project<\/td>\nProf. Theresa Akenji<\/td>\nWHO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18.<\/td>\nGlobal Forum for Health Research<\/td>\nDr. Ndeh Peter<\/td>\nWHO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19.<\/td>\nGender, Globalisation and Land Tenure: The Chad-Cameroon Pipe<\/td>\nProfessor<\/p>\n

Joyce Endeley,<\/p>\n

Professor<\/p>\n

FondoSikod<\/td>\n

IDRC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20.<\/td>\nClimate variability and climate change in Northern Cameroon<\/td>\nDR. Ernest Molua<\/td>\nIDRC-UNITAR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21.<\/td>\nApplication of Genomic and proteomic approaches in the characterization of human and bovine tubercle bacilli and implications for disease control<\/td>\nProf. Vincent P.K Titanji<\/td>\nBecANet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22.<\/td>\nThe impact of land tenure practices on women\u2019s right to land in Anglophone Cameroon and implications on sustainable development<\/td>\nProfessor<\/p>\n

LotsmartFonjong, Dr.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Fombe, Dr. Irene Sama-lang<\/td>\n

IDRC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23.<\/td>\nCorrelation of bark phytochemicals from annickia chlorantha with physiological and environmental variables across a forested African Landscape<\/td>\nProf. Simon Efange<\/td>\nSmithsonian Institute, Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24.<\/td>\nThe influence of seasonal changes in hydrology<\/td>\nDr. Tening Aaron<\/td>\nIAEA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.<\/td>\nClimate friendly waste management<\/td>\nDr. Josepha Foba<\/td>\nCommonwealth and foreign office, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26.<\/td>\nMechanisms of erythrocytic infection and anaemia in malaria<\/td>\nProf. Vincent P.K Titanji<\/td>\nUniversity of Notre Dame, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27.<\/td>\nWomen\u2019s Movements and the struggle for Socio-political space in the grasslands of Cameroon: A study of Anlu, Kelu, Tekembeng and Fuembuem<\/td>\nDr. Roselyn M. Jua, Walters Nkwi and Henry Kah<\/td>\nCODESRIA NWG Research Grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28.<\/td>\nGene-Environment studies in podoconiosis<\/td>\nDr. Wanji Samuel<\/td>\nWelcome Trust Limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29.<\/td>\nFemale representative for crop science in Africa<\/p>\n

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Dr Lum Ayeoffe Fontem<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30.<\/td>\nDocumenting the Royal Honorific Language of Bafut, a Grass fields Bantu Language of North West Cameroon<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ayu\u2019nwi Ngwabe Neba<\/td>\nHRELP Project, London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31.<\/td>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Poverty eradication and grass root empowerment through sustainable integrated agriculture development: Fish Cum Rice and Pig production. Lead<\/em> University: Njala University, Sierra Leone.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Dr. Pius Mbu Oben<\/p>\n

(Cameroon National Coordinator: CORAF \u2013 WECARD)<\/td>\n

World Bank Project:<\/p>\n

West and Central African Council for agricultural research and development (CORAF\/WECARD) competitive grant and commissioned research schemes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

32.<\/td>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sustainable integrated Pond Based Aquaculture with Rice and Poultry production: Economic, Social and Environmental assessment. Lead<\/em> University: University of Ibadan, Nigeria<\/em><\/td>\nDr. Pius Mbu Oben<\/p>\n

(Cameroon National Coordinator: CORAF \u2013 WECARD)<\/td>\n

World Bank Project:<\/p>\n

West and Central African Council for agricultural research and development<\/p>\n

(CORAF\/WECARD) competitive grant and commissioned research schemes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

33.<\/td>\nDeveloping a macroflaricial drug for onchocerciasis using anacor\u2019s novel oxaborole technology<\/td>\nDr. Fidelis Cho-Ngwa & Prof. Vincent P. K. Titanji<\/td>\nNew York Blood Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34.<\/td>\nTo establish a Drug Discovery Centre at the University of Buea<\/td>\nDr. Fidelis Cho-Ngwa<\/td>\nWHO\/TDR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35.<\/td>\nStudies on developing surveillance\/monitoring and integrated management systems for the oil palm leaf miner beetle (coelaemenodera minuta uhmann) in the Cameroon Development Corporation.<\/td>\nDr. Ntonnifor Nelson<\/td>\n\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36.<\/td>\nIPICS : Biotech Project.<\/td>\nProf. Vincent Titanji<\/td>\nIPICS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37.<\/td>\nBenedict College.<\/td>\nProfessor Leke Tambo<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38.<\/td>\nIFS Grant<\/td>\nDr. Ndip Roland<\/td>\nIFS Grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39.<\/td>\nOrder, disorder and chaos in biophysical systems: Unveiling the complex dynamics of the neuronal system.<\/td>\nDr. Dikande Alain Moise<\/td>\nTWAS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40.<\/td>\nThe youths in Africa\u2019s labour market: quality of employment, unemployment and underemployment<\/td>\nDr. Tabi Atemnkeng Johannes<\/td>\nAfrica Economic Research Consortium (AERC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41.<\/td>\nUsing geospartial tools to investigate how deforestation affects the transmission of malaria in birds.<\/td>\nDr. Anong Nota Demian<\/td>\nNAS sub-grant award<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Capacity Building Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No.<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nProject Title<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nPI<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nSponsor<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nUB AERC Project<\/td>\nDr. Sama Molem<\/td>\nAERC Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nValidating a combined geo-epidemiological approach to sampling for a geo-chemical disease.<\/td>\nProf. Samuel Wanji<\/td>\nWELLCOME Trust to University of Sussex and UB as sub-contractor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nUniversity Development Co-operation, Own Initiatives Scheme, 2006: Geohazards Monitoring Project (International collaborative research and capacity building project)<\/td>\nDr. Samuel Ayonghe (UB based local promoter<\/td>\nVLIR (Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nEuropean and Developing countries Clinical Trials Partnerships for a post-doctoral position at UB as host institution for visiting researcher, Dr. Else Carole Ebounbou of the Marie-Curie University in France<\/td>\nDr. Else Carole Ebounbou<\/td>\nEDCTP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nNetworks of excellence project<\/td>\nProfessor Peter Ndumbe<\/td>\nEDCTP-EEIG, the Hague<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nResearch and Innovation Management Improvement\u00a0 for Africa and the Caribbean for the Successful Stimulation and Dissemination of Research Results (RIMI4AC)<\/td>\nDr. Josepha Foba<\/td>\nEU ACP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\nDOBES Training Workshop at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijegen- Holland<\/td>\nDr. Roselyn M. Jua, Dr. Gratien Atindogbe\u00a0 and Dr. Canute Ngwa<\/td>\nVolkwagen Shiftung Grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\nIFS research project F\/4186-2 titled \u201cResistance of uro-genital tract infectious agents to currently used antibiotics: search for solutions in some medicinal plants from Cameroon\u201d.<\/td>\nDr. Assob Nguedia Jules Clement, PI<\/td>\nIFS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nDeveloping a macrofilarial drug for onchocerciasis through a pan-Africa consortium<\/td>\n-Dr. Fidelis Cho-Ngwa (PI)<\/p>\n

– Prof. Simon Efange (Co-PI)<\/td>\n

African network for drugs and diagnosis innovation (ANDI) UNECA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\nIFS Project No. F\/5122-1 (New Antiplasmodial Compounds from Dacryodes edulis (G. Don) Lam. and Coula edulis Baill. Selected medicinal plants used to treat malaria symptoms in Western Cameroon<\/td>\nDr. Zofou Denis<\/td>\nIFS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.<\/td>\nGeneration X in Cameroon, nowhere to go, but everywhere to go, in the twenty somethings.<\/td>\nDr. Joseph Lo-oh (FED)<\/td>\nDCF Fellowship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.<\/td>\nThe precambrian mineral belt of Cameroon: gold, iron and associated elements.<\/td>\nProf. Cheo Emmanuel Suh (FS)<\/td>\nAvH grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.<\/td>\nMapping evolutionary process in the face of climate change:\u00a0 an integrated approach to education and conservation prioritization in Central Africa.<\/td>\nDr. Eric Bertrand Fokam (UB contact for research team)<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation (NSF) grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.<\/td>\nPressures and impact of climate change in Cameroon on Health, water resources and agriculture: Consideration for immediate and future adaptation strategies.<\/td>\nProf. Samuel Ndonwi Ayonghe<\/td>\nGerman National Academy of Science Leopoldina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15.<\/td>\nResearch grant to carryout fundamental research in mathematics in the University of Buea.<\/td>\nDr. Agbor Diudonne (FS)<\/td>\nAlexander von Humboldt Postgraduate Fellowship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16.<\/td>\nCross-Cultural Psychology: An Africentric Perspective\u201d, Centre File: 107226-001,<\/td>\nProf. Therese MungahShalo Tchombe<\/td>\nIDRC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17.<\/td>\nPopulation genetics of plasmodium falciparum parasites in natural populations of Buea, South Western Cameroon.<\/td>\nDr. Apinjoh Tobias<\/td>\nThe Medical Research Council (MRC) Univ. of Oxford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18.<\/td>\ndevelopment and sustainable breeding of local chicken for improved productivity under local alternative feed DManagement system and Health control<\/td>\nChristian keambou Tiambo<\/td>\nInternational Initiative Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19.<\/td>\nDevelopment and sustainable breeding of local chicken for improved productivity under local alternative feed management system and health control<\/td>\nChristian keambou Tiambo<\/td>\nAfrica-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace (ABAIM) EMBRAPA-FUNARBE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20.<\/td>\nDevelopment of a Research Strategic and Operational Plan and Guidelines for Accreditation and Evaluation of Research Units at the University of Buea.<\/td>\nDivision of Research and Publications<\/p>\n

(coordinator; Dr Foba Tendo)<\/td>\n

AAU Seed Grant Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21.<\/td>\nUB-ULB Project on strengthening the Onchocerciasis program in Cameroon.<\/td>\nDr. Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu<\/td>\nUniversite Libre de Bruxelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22.<\/td>\nInterrogating large scale land acquisitions and its implications for women\u2019s land right in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/td>\nDr. Lotsmart Fonjong and his research team.<\/td>\nIDRC grant based in Ottawa Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23.<\/td>\n\u00a0Malaria parasitemia and systemic cytokine bias in pregnant Cameroonian women.<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Professor Vincent P.K. Titanji<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Achidi Eric Akum<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

24.<\/td>\nAccounting and OHADA business law.<\/td>\nProf. Martha Tumnde and Prof. Charles Elad<\/td>\nBritish Academy Mobility Grant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.<\/td>\nEffects of extracts of Aguaria salicifolia on liver diseases, in vitroand in vivo.<\/td>\nDr. Fotio Lambou epse Tonfack<\/td>\nInternational Foundation for Science (IFS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26.<\/td>\nMorphological and molecular identification of fresh water prawn of genus macrobrachium in South Region of Cameroon<\/td>\nMs. Judith G. Makombu<\/td>\nInternational Foundation for Science (IFS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27.<\/td>\nDocumentation and description of Zerenkel, an Afro-Asiatic language of Chad belonging to East Chadic language family.<\/td>\nRamat Sakine (PhD Student at UB, from Chad)<\/td>\nELDP, SOAS – UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28.<\/td>\nProgramme of implementation research to inform the effective and sustainable scaling-up of integrated neglected tropical disease (NTD) control initiatives<\/td>\nDr. Samuel Wanji (Co-PI) and Prof. Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine , PI<\/td>\nLSTM \u2013 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29.<\/td>\nComputer Science for High School programme (for organization of training workshop for computer science teachers in Fako)<\/td>\nDr. Denis Nkweteyim<\/td>\nGoogle grant award<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30.<\/td>\nBritish Council, UK England African partnerships in higher education project on the strengthening of PhD training in Africa (South-North, South-South collaborative project)<\/td>\nProf. Tchombe Fombe<\/td>\nBritish Council, UK England<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31.<\/td>\nSTARS Project (a pilot training \u00a0programme with two main strands of activity involving 12 African universities)<\/td>\nUniversity of Buea (institutional team with Dr. Foba as institutional contact)<\/td>\nRobert Bosch Stiftung, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32.<\/td>\nHoward University GEAR UP Program in partnership with the University of Buea for undergraduate research\u00a0 exchange mobility of students<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Lorraine Fleming (PI), and Josepha Foba,(UB contact)<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

United States National Science Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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