We are proud to announce that Dr Luria Founou, PhD our Head of Research has been awarded the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund 2025/2026 for the project entitled “Building Capacity for Facility-Based Genomic Surveillance to Curb Neonatal...
Read moreMILESTONE ACHIEVED: Training the Next Generation in Long-Read Sequencing Technology in Cameroon!
We are proud to celebrate the successful completion of the highly anticipated #MinION Long-Read Sequencing Workshop: “From Culture to Genotype,” which ran from December 1st to December 9th, 2025, at the CEDBCAM Research Institute...
Read moreCelebrating a Major Achievement: CEDBCAM-RI Research Fellow Awarded Prestigious ARES PhD Scholarship
We are thrilled to announce a significant achievement by one of our exceptional research fellows, Ange Atsafack, from the CEDBCAM Research Institute (CEDBCAM-RI). Ange has been awarded the highly competitive Belgium ARES Fund PhD Scholarship at...
Read moreAntimicrobial awareness week
CEDBCAM representatives were invited to participate and contribute to the Call to Action on AMR conference in 2021 as well as to the African World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021.
Read moreInternational Microbiology Day of the Cameroon Society of Microbiology
CEDBCAM researchers were delighted to participate to the 1st International Microbiology Day, under the theme “Antimicrobial Resistance: The Next Pandemic?” that was hosted by the Cameroonian Society of Microbiology in November 2021...
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to antimicrobial re-sistance containment
As of 23 April 2021, the of COVID-19 claimed around 150 million confirmed cases with over 3 million deaths worldwide. Yet, an even more serious but silent pandemic, that of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is likely complicating the outcome of...
Read moreMethicillin resistant staphylococci isolated in clinical samples: a 3-year retrospective study analysis
Fouloum and colleagues determined the prevalence and described the antimicrobial resistance patterns of circulating methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) isolated from clinical specimens during a 3-year period in CEDBCAM. From...
Read moreCEDBCAM part of SEDRIC Think Tank
CEDBCAM is happy to announce that we are now member of the prestigious global think tank SEDRIC that promotes the power of data to contain antimicrobial resistance. We will bring our multi-sectorial expertise to identify evidence gaps, describe...
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