Research Grants

The Dama Project

The Dama project, which stands for Data Analytics for Mycetoma Research Center, is a collaborative effort involving multiple institutions. It is working alongside the Mycetoma Research Center (MRC), the Comboni College of Science and Technology (CCST) in Khartoum, and researchers from the Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics (ivESK) of Offenburg University, Germany.

The project aims to initiate crucial groundwork in database management and data pre-processing. This foundational work is essential for laying the groundwork for future analyses and projects in mycetoma research. Through this collaborative endeavour, the team seeks to establish a solid framework that will facilitate comprehensive data analysis of more than 12,000 mycetoma patients managed at the MRC over the last three decades and drive advancements in understanding and combating mycetoma.

The project is funded by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which has allocated funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt—AA) to bolster the ‘Ta’ziz Short-Term Measures’ initiative. This support demonstrates a commitment to fostering international cooperation and knowledge exchange, empowering collaborative efforts to enhance research, innovation, and capacity-building endeavours and contributing to advancements in the field of mycetoma research.

The Mycexomics Project

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 the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan, The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC) in Sudan, The Hospital General de México, Mexico and Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands. The project budget is $285,937, and the first phase of the project [Concept Development] will run in the period 2020/04 and 2021/12. Read More

Awarding Body: Dioraphte Foundation Grant on Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Project title: The development of a point-of-care diagnostic test for mycetoma in Africa.

The project has five collaborating centres, and these are Erasmus MC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands,  the Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, UFR Sciences de la Santé, Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and The Mycotic Diseases Branch at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Start date-end date: 2023-2025

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Awarding Body: The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development  (AMED).

Project Title: The diagnostics of early or latent eumycetoma: Search for new biomarkers, POC diagnostics, and development of a clinical epidemiology platform.

The project has five partners, and these are the Department of Eco-Epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan; the Chemical Library Center, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Japan; the Management Unit of Microbiological Resources; Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Japan, Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Japan and Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

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Start date-end date: 2023-2025

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Awarding Body: DNDi, Switzerland & Takeda Japan

Project title: Specialty Pharmacy Services for Patients with Mycetoma

Amount awarded: 68400 Euro

Start date-end date: 2022- 2024