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 BiotechnologyDebrezeit 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