The 15th February 2019, marks The Second Anniversary of the Khartoum Call for Action for mycetoma that was endorsed in Khartoum, Sudan during the Sixth International Conference on Mycetoma in the period 15–17, 2019 which was organised by the Mycetoma Research Centre, (MRC), University of Khartoum, WHO Collaborating Centre on Mycetoma and the World Health Organization. Read more
Director-General of WHO calls for more Mycetoma research during visit to Mycetoma Research Centre
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Sunday 24 October 2018 had visited the Mycetoma Research Centre in Khartoum (Sudan), WHO Collaborating Centre on Mycetoma where he pledged to support initiatives that produce better diagnostics and medicines for this goal.
The Mycetoma Patients Friends Association in collaboration with The Japan Embassy in Sudan, had organised the Groundbreaking Ceremony for The Mycetoma PAtients Vocational Training Center at the Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum on the 18th November 2020, under the Patronage of HE Prof Intisar Soghayroun EL Zein, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Read more
Presented by
The Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum,
WHO Collaborating Centre on Mycetoma
Soba University Hospital
The Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Centre (SAA’ID)
It is a hub for vocational training, business development, and entertainment, located at the Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
All the hopes for the Mycetoma Patients
Date: 23 - 27 February 2020, at 07:00 PM
Venue: French Inistitute, Khartoum
Visit Mycetoma Cultural Week web page
MycEXomics is a Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) funded research project which aims by combining academic and industrial expertise and resources to develop point-of-care diagnostics tools for the most common causative agents of Mycetoma. The project consortium has four collaborating partners from RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Japan, The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC) Sudan, The Hospital General de México, Mexico and Erasmus University Medical Center The Netherlands. The project budget is $285,937 .......Read more
The Social Sciences for Severe Stigmatising Skin Conditions (5S) Foundation at BSMS was established in 2019 and will run until August 2023. The programme is a £3.5 million collaborative research partnership between BSMS and the Mycetoma Research Centre in Sudan, the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) based at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the University of Rwanda and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Read more