UNZA-UCLMS Mentorship Programme

Are you and MMed or MSc student with a great idea for a research project?

The 'UNZA-UCLMS Mentorship Programme' can provide research support and advice on all stages your project, from proposal writing and ethical approval, through to implementation, data analysis and dissemination. We'll pair you and your UNZA faculty supervisor with an international mentor with appropriate expertise to help you design and implement a study that is worthy of publication in internationally recognised journals. It's all about the IDEA!!! If you have a good one, contact us on info@unza-uclms.org or matthew.bates@ucl.ac.uk.

PhD student John Tembo with his colleagues at Tongji Medical College, Huanzhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

"There are very few opportunities for career progression in Zambia so I was overjoyed when I got a job with UNZA-UCLMS in 2011. I am so grateful to Dr Bates and Prof Zumla who have completely transformed my career prospects. I have almost completed my PhD in Wuhan, and am looking forward to returning home" John Tembo, Feb 2017

MPH student Lophina Chilukutu recruiting a patient at UTH

"The UNZ-UCLMS Mentorship Programme has really transformed my career. I have co-authored 8 publications with Dr Bates, including in top journals like LID and CID. There is no research group in Zambia that nurtures it's staff and students in this way" Lophina Chilukutu, Dec 2016

Moffat Malisheni outside medical school in Singapore

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr Bates for his mentorship and outstanding recommendation for both my Chevening Scholarship, and now my PhD candidature at the National University of Singapore and the Singapore International Graduate Award." Moffat Malisheni, Jan 2017.

Students and projects

Name	Course	Project Title	Partner	Status
Dr Kunda Musonda	PhD	Effect of early infant betaherpesvirus infections on growth and development	LSHTM	Completed
Dr Nathan Kapata	PhD	Assessment and improvement of the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme in Zambia	University of Amsterdam	Current
John Tembo	PhD	The clinical impact and genotypes of betaherpesvirus infections at the University Teaching Hospital	HUST University, Wuhan, China	Current
Mwila Kabwe	PhD	Molecular analysis of mechanisms of drug resistance in an outbreak of multi-drug resistant klebsiella among neonatal admissions and design of a rapid diagnsotic test for ESBLs.	La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia	Current
Moffat Malisheni	PhD	TBA	University of Singapore	Current
Pascal Polepole	PhD	Herpesvirus infections in lymphoma in Zambia	University of Nebraska	Set-up
Mpanga Kasonde	PhD	Totally Drug Resistant TB	University of Tehran, Iran	Set-up
Dr Ngosa Mumba	MMed	TB bone marrow biopsy study	UCL	Current
Dr Nyaxewo Mwanza	MMed	The prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus infection among neonatal intensive care unit admissions	UCL	Completed
Dr Sophia Msiska	MMed	Sepsis aetiology and drug resistance in paediatric inpatients, mother-infant pairs and children attening community clinics	UCL	Completed
Dr Shula Chanda	MMed	TB as a cause of gatrointestinal perforations	UCL	Completed
Dr Kanta Chandwe	MMed	Comparing the prevalence of HHV-6 in febrile children with and without their first seizure	UCL	Completed
Dr Sombo Fwoloshi	MMed	TB treatment outcomes in diabetes patients	LSHTM	Completed
Dr Matimba Dindi	MMed	Prevalence of neonatal TB in babies born to mothers with current or suspected TB infection, at UTH and community clinics within Lusaka	UCL	Current
Moses Chilufya	MPH	Correlating CMV viral loads with outcomes in children admitted with severe pneumonia	UCL/Cavendish University	Completed
Lophina Chilukutu	MPH	Prevalence of Tuberculosis in pregnant women	UCL	Completed
Moffat Malisheni	MPH	Literature review on the progress of vaccine develpoment for Dengue fever	University of Glasgow	Completed
Pasca Polepole	MSc	Performance of molecular diagnostics for the diagnosis of TB in FFPE tissue from routine biopsy specimens	UCL	Completed
Mwila Kabwe	MSc	In vitro testing of a novel class of antimicrobial compound on a panel of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant bacteria and mycobacteria isolated from the University Teaching Hospital	UCL and Kimmerling Holdings Group, Atlanta, U.S	Completed
Mpanga Kasonde	MSc	Molecular speciation of drug resistant TB	University of East Anglia	Completed
Mr Stephen Mbita	MSc	Betaherpesvirus infections detected through molecualr analysis of brain tissue at autopsy	UCL	Current

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