• El Hassan Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Clinical Trials was established in 2017 with excellent facilities for clinical trials. It is hosting the first-ever Proof-of-Concept Superiority Trial of Fosravuconazole Versus Itraconazole for Eumycetoma in Sudan, and the trial is about to be completed

• The Mycetoma Research & Development Arcade for Continuing professional development training activities was established at the MRC. It had organised many events for staff capacity building.

• Joint Research Projects

 The MRC is currently collaborating with many centres and institutions, and these include:

• Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam University.
• Sussex University, UK.
• Tours University, France.
• York University, UK.
• RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Japan,
• Nagasaki University, Japan

• Establishment of Post-Graduate Programme

 Outcomes:

• Improved staff capacity building
• More than 230 publications in high impact factors journals.
• Special issue on Mycetoma at Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Mycetoma special collection, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal.
• Ten PhD students based at the MRC and registered at Sussex, Rotterdam, Tours Universities
• Two Postdoctoral students