Research Areas

Area

National Priority

SDG

Natural Products & Pharmacognosy

  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical sciences
  • Phytonutrients

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Medical Microbiology

  • Bacterial pathogens
  • Host-microbe interactions
  • Anti-microbial resistance
  • Biological control of vector-borne diseases

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Genetics & Molecular Biology

  • Molecular mechanisms of diseases
  • Signal transduction studies
  • Gene cloning and expression
  • Protein downstream processing

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Public Health

  • Disease epidemiology
  • Evidence-based health practices
  • Medical laboratory diagnostics 
  • Medical entomology

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Community Nutrition

  • Human nutrition
  • Public health nutrition
  • Nutrition security
  • Nutrition education

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 2: Zero Hunger

 

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Therapeutic Nutrition

  • Clinical nutrition
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Functional and pharma foods

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Genomics, Bioinformatics & Meta-analysis

  • Medical and nutritional genomics
  • Applied bioinformatics in biomedical and nutritional research
  • Meta-analysis in biomedical research
  • Nutrition ontology

 

Healthcare & Medicine

SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing