{"id":356,"date":"2021-02-18T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/staar\/?post_type=project&p=356"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:34:01","slug":"asiko-ongaya","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/staahr\/project\/asiko-ongaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiko Ongaya"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Asiko Ongaya<\/h1>\n

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Asiko Ongaya is formally trained as a medical laboratory scientist (BSc) and Mycobacteriologist (MSc) and currently pursuing a PhD in Microbiology from Jomo Kenyatta University of science and technology in collaboration with Institute of Tropical medicine and infectious (ITROMID) and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).<\/p>\n

She currently a Senior Research Scientist based at the Centre for Respiratory Disease Research (CRDR), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). Her research work as a principle Investigator, co-investigator or author of various publications includes New tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics, immunology of TB\/HIV, TB epidemiology, TB drug resistance (MDR-TB, XDR-TB) studies, TB case finding studies, COVID-19 epidemiology among others. Her main area of research interest includes general Microbiology, TB\/HIV co-infection, TB diagnosis, TB drug development and vaccinology, Immunology of TB and HIV and COVID-19 research.<\/p>\n

Asiko is also currently working with St Andrews Africa Research (StAAHR) in a collaborative study to establish Tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay (TB-MBLA) at KEMRI and Kenya which is a capacity building study. The Molecular bacterial load assay provides a simple molecular approach to quantify and determine the viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em> samples.<\/p>\n

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