JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE VOLCANO

The Nairobi Ideas platform is comprised of free events including the Nairobi Ideas Night, a recurring informal public event for local researchers, scholars and other nerds to present their ideas to the public, and the Nairobi Ideas Exchange, which gathers participants to deep dive into issues in their unique fields…

Meri Iskandaryan is tackling the global challenge of depleting energy reserves by proposing the use of fuel cell (FC) technology, specifically oxygen-tolerant Hydrogenases (Hyd) from non-pathogenic Ralstonia eutropha, for efficient conversion of chemical energy into electricity. Her innovative approach aims to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly energy systems, incorporating enzymatic…

Agnieszka Zuchowska is developing a novel in vitro tool that will largely reproduce the features of the in vivo environment, and thus increase the reliability of the results obtained in preclinical studies.

Food insecurity exists in more than 1.6 billion people (i.e., over 20% of the global population). The last UN Food Systems Summit emphasised that the world’s food system is irretrievably broken. Recent developments such as the war in Ukraine and State-responses to high food prices, alongside ongoing issues like pandemic-related…

As well as employing established schemes like analysis of sex-disaggregated data, mentoring and trainings to stop the leaky pipeline, the project developed innovative strategies to challenge traditional structures and ways of thinking in marine sciences. Some examples are a new tool for the incorporation of gender perspectives into research content,…

Elias Barbosa is addressing neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people and leaving chronic sequelae, by developing experimental models for leishmaniasis and Hansen’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The project aims to accelerate the development of regenerative therapies to address both the diseases and their chronic sequelae,…

Retinal prostheses hold the potential to revert blindness in profoundly blind people. However, devices should provide visual perception at high resolution and, most importantly, over a wide visual angle to be valuable in everyday activities. To solve this technological challenge, we have developed and validated a photovoltaic wide-field retinal implant…

How a Bacterial Defence System Revolutionizes Biomedical Research Many past scientific revolutions started with basic research, curiosity and a surprise moment. When Emmanuelle Charpentier and her co-workers were busy studying the defence system used by bacteria to shake off attacking viruses, they knew that this discovery was relevant way beyond…

It will be a portable device. It will work on Li-ion battery. You can take it with you. Full sterilization time for 1 liter of liquid food is up to 5 minutes. It is safe for the human body. Tags: Food & Agriculture, Water, milk, liquid food, disinfection of liquid,…

I saw that people were being left behind by genomics, I left academia to used lessons from the innovation space to change this. To do this our team is building a doctor/patient focused genome browser.