1. Humoral Immunity techniques in research of Infectious diseases.

2. Cellular Immunity techniques in research of Infectious diseases.

3. Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA techniques.

4. Radioisotopes in Biology experiments.

5. Tissue cultures and monoclonal antibody production.

6. Electron Microscopy.

7. General Bacteriology techniques.

8. Atlas GIS health mapping.

Research Interest:

1. Immunology and Molecular Biology of Tropical Diseases.

2. Host parasite interaction.

3. The use of Atlas GIS in Health

4. Biomarkers and diagnostics.

Research Activities:

Conducting the following research projects:

1. Cellular Immunity and cytokine profiles in Human Onchocerciasis.

Supported by a grant from NIH- Sudan medical research Council project.

2. DNA heterogeneity of Onchocerca volvulus isolates from different

Onchocerciasis

Endemic regions of Sudan. Supported by a grant from TDR\ WHO.

3. Rapid Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis (REMO) and the

Epidemiology of

Malaria in Khartoum State. Supported by a grant from TDR\WHO.

4. Immunity in Bovine Schistosomiasis. Supported by a grant from The

5. Cellular Immunity in Measles infection. Supported by a grant from the

6. Characterization of the immune system of Camelus dromedarius.

7. Measles mass vaccination; Supported by WHO grant.

8. Proteomics of the urine of Kala-Azar patients (Supported by the

International Center Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology)

9. Biomarkers of the urine and sputum of Mycobacterium TB patients

(Supported by TDR/ Find)

10. The epidemiology of pulmonary TB in eastern Sudan (supported by

EDCTP).

11- Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis: a multicenter study of global

network for diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis (supported by WHO/

TDR).

12- Improvement of diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (Supported by

EDCTP).