Collaborations
| Directorate | Collaborations |
|---|---|
| Industrial Biotechnology | ~ Bio Innovate Africa, icipe, Kenya ~ Technical University of Darmstat, Germany ~ Jomo Kenyata University of Agricultural technology (JKUAT), Kenya ~ National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO), Uganda ~ Soil and more Composting PLC (SME), Ethiopia ~ Arba Minch University, Ethiopia ~ The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom ~ National Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center ~ Institute of Agro-Food Science and Technology, China ~ Addis Ababa Science and Technology university ~ Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) ~ Productivity Improvement Center, Addis Ababa ~ Metehara Sugar Factory ~ Tabor Ceramics Factory ~ Bahir Dar University ~ Addis Ababa Science and Technology Institute ~ Balezaf Alcohol Factory ~ Bless Agri Foods Laboratory ~ Adama Science and Technology University , ASTU, Adama , Ethiopia |
| Health Biotechnology | ~ EPHI ~ AHRI, ~ NVI ~ NAHDIC ~ Universities (AAU, JU, ASTU, ~ Eka Kotebe Hospital |
| Reverse Engineering | ~ USAID ~ Soyabean Innovation Lab,USA ~ CleBer LLC, USA ~ GIZ ~ OSTICA ~ Welkite Polytechnique collage ~ Arba Minch University |
| Genomics and Bioinformatics | ~ Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), ~ African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), ~ MGI Africa and Illumina, Inc., ~ Chungbuk National University, lab of Animal Genomics, ~ South Korea and Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Austria. |
| Agriculture Biotechnology | Debrezeit Agricultural Research Center & Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center ~ AAU ~ Debrebirhan Agricultural Research Center & Sinana Agricultural Research Center ~ Ambo Agricultural Research Center ~ Ambo Agricultural Research Center ~ AAU,Welkite University ~ Holeta Agricultural Research Center ~ DLCO, ~ AAU & HU |
Grants
| Directorate | Grants |
|---|---|
| Reverse Engineering | ~ Multi-Crop thresher Technology funded by USAID ~ Waling tractor technology funded by MINT ~ Multi-crop Technology Funded by MINT |
| Health Biotechnology | ~ COVID-19: Establishing rapid laboratory diagnostic programs in low- middle-income countries (LMICs)”. Collaborative research by EBTI and ICGEB funded by Bill and Melinda gate’s foundation, Trestie, Italy: the year 2020 ($44,800), for 6 months project. ~ “Developing innovative fast and affordable diagnostic and treatment options to address the COVID19 pandemic in the eastern African population”. BioInnovate Africa Programme, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe): Year: 2020 ($40,000), 10 months’ project. ~ “Development of Mucosal Immune Responses enhancing Inactivated Irradiated Vaccine against Fowl Cholera Delivered by Different Immunization Strategies” funded by IAEA CRP D32035 project on vaccine development: Year: 2020 (euro 40,000), 5 years’ project. ~ “Development of a noble polyvalent Marek´s disease (MD) virus vaccine from local isolates”, Annual competitive research grant from Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute (EBTI) (year: 2017/18 (4,776,000.00 ETB or $170,571.00), 3 years’ project. ~ "Development of a noble immunoprophylaxis for Infectious Bursal Disease and Fowl Cholera from local isolates", Annual competitive research grant from the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) (Year: 2016/17 (3,186,000.00 ETB or $106,200.00), 3 years’ project. ~ “Development of oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine from local isolates” (by Cholera vaccine team), 4.7 million Birr project ~ Comparative lipidomics for development of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-based lipid biomarkers (42,000 euro), ~ Establishing the Ethiopian Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (EMAGEN) EPHI, AHRI ~ A multicentric clinical study for the use of RT-lamp directly from saliva to detect SARS-COV-2, (EBTI and ICGEB), 2022-2024. ~ Genotyping the locally circulating Human papillomavirus (EBTI and BGI). |
| Industrial Biotechnology | `~ Small Scale Community Biorefining of Sorghum for Food, Sugar and Biomaterials in Rain Fed Areas of Eastern Africa, Bioinnovate Africa ~ Curving Aflatoxin Challenges of Food and Feed Value Chain for Improved Food Safety and Security in Ethiopia, MiNT ~ SaS-CoV2-Spores against SARS-CoV-2. Volkswagon Stiftung ~ Mass Culture of Selected Microalgae Species for High Value Chemicals, MiNT |