The MARCAD consortium which seeks to train African scientists toward building a critical mass for the control and the elimination of malaria, has recently awarded Dr Abdullahi Ahmad with a 4 year P

Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa (MARCAD) recently awarded Dr Opondo with a Post-doctoral Fellowship to conduct his research on the ‘Impact of Insecticide Resistance

On Tuesday 14th February 2017, MRC Unit The Gambia was visited by Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, the United Kingdom (UK) Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Lack of iron, and its associated anaemia, is the largest nutritional deficiency disorder in the world today, affecting 2 billion people.

Internationally recognised for its track record of research into tropical infectious diseases and  the UK’s single largest investment in The Gambia, MRC Unit The Gambia (MRCG), will be visited for

Since April 2016, MRC Unit The Gambia’s Librarian Isatou Manneh has been providing Research Information Services to The Unit.

MRC Unit The Gambia (MRCG) is celebrating 70 glorious years of tackling major infectious diseases of global public health importance in sub‐Saharan Africa and beyond.

Mustapha Jobe joined MRCG as the Head of Human Resources (HR), in April 2016.

Professor Martin Antonio is the leader of the molecular biology group at the MRC Unit The Gambia and was recently awarded an honorary professorship at the Division of Microbiology & Immunity, W

The MRC Unit The Gambia (MRCG) continued its support and contribution to the Gambian health services during the recent political events.

Malaria increases the burden of anemia in low-income countries, where, according to 2012 data from the World Health Organisation, 40% of children are anemic.

Mamadou Jallow joined the MRC Unit The Gambia fresh from high school in 2011 as a Trainee Laboratory Technician in the Clinical Laboratories.