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Tropical Medicine Research Institute[TMRI]
Contact: Professor Suad Mohamed Suliman, Director
P.O.Box 1304, Khartoum, Sudan
Tel: 249-11779246/781845
E-mail: tropmed@sudanet.net

Background:

 The Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) was established in 1972. The main activities of the TMRI is to undertake applied research programmes on the transmission and control of parasitic diseases, improve the diagnostic methodology and implement new finer tools for the control of endemic diseases in the Sudan.

Objectives:
  1. Conduct scientific and applied research in the different tropical diseases.
  2. Qualify and train the researchers and assisting staff of the TMRI.
  3. Training of Medical and Health Personnel on modern and novel methods dealing with the diagnosis and control of tropical diseases.
  4. Consolidate cooperation and experiences with national and international health institutions and Scientific Research Organisations.
  5. Motivation for Scientific excellence, innovation.
  6. Provide scientific consulting and advise to the government and the private sector in the field of specialisation.
  7. Publish and document the research achievements and outcomes in national and international journals and periodicals.
  8. Participation in and organising of local and international conferences which reflect the ongoing excellent and precise scientific research quality.

Organization and Staff:

A. Departments:
  1. Vectors Transmission and Control.
  2. Immunology and Biotechnology.
  3. Data Analysis and Biostatistics.
  4. Sudan Medical Parasitology Research Laboratory (SMPRL).

B. Man-power:

Current Activities:
  1. Prevalence of the human malaria parasites in rural areas around Khartoum state.
  2. The role of displaced people in geographical distribution of malaria species.
  3. Insecticide impregnation of material (Sudanese thobs) as a control method of malaria in an area endemic with malaria transmission, Rahad area, Western Sudan.
  4. Evaluation study on impregnated thobs and malaria control.
  5. Acute phase reactant proteins in P. falciparum in Sudanese malaria patients.
  6. Characteristics of P. falciparum parasites that survive the dry season in an area of seasonal malaria in eastern Sudan.
  7. Investigations on the efficacy and safety of artesunate in patients with severe P. Falciparum in Sudan.
  8. Studies on immunity to Onchocerca volvulus infection with special emphasis on humoral immunity, cellular immunity and immediate hypersensitivity reaction.
  9. Molecular and immunological parameters of the developmental stages of Onchocerca volvulus parasite.
  10. Studies on the black fly Simulium damnosum as a vector of human onchocerciasis.
  11. Epidemiology of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) in the Sudan.
  12. The role of immediate hypersensitivity reaction and cell mediated immunity on Schistosoma mansoni morbidity.
  13. The effect of sub-lethal doses of two agricultural pesticides on the breeding of snails intermediate host of schistosomiasis.
  14. Schistosomiasis transmission patterns in the Gezira scheme.
  15. Evaluation of praziquantel and monitoring development of resistance to the drug in the Gezira irrigation scheme, Sudan.
  16. Immunological and genetical factors associated with chronic Schistosomiasis in elderly people.
  17. Epidemiological patterns and risk factors of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) with special emphasis on S. Haematobium infection.
  18. H. Pylori sensitivity to antibiotics in the Sudan.
  19. Diagnosis and antibiotic sensitivity testing of infecting abents associated with peritonitis in dialysis patients in the renal unit in Ibn sina hospital, Sudan.
  20. A study of drug resistance in aerobic nosocomial bacterial contaminants to selected antimicrobial agents.
  21. Antimicrobial activity of some Sudanese plant extracts in comparison to antiseptics against pathogenic aerobic bacteria isolates from surgical sites in Khartoum State hospitals.
  22. Tests of antimicrobial plants extracts against reference bacteria and clinical isolates from patients.
  23. Biostatistics and data analysis courses, two training courses each year.
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