Current Research & Innovation Projects

 

S/No

Academic Staff

Title of the Grant

Funding Agency

Amount

Start Date 

(Month/ Year)

End Date 

(Month/Year)

1.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Biochar composites for manure amendment: Effects on mobility and dissemination of pharmaceutical antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes and mechanisms underlying the interactions

Alexander von Humboldt (AvH)-Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

Fellowship

May-2025

Jun-2027

2.

Dr. Gladys Nyachieo

Heat, health and ethical research dilemmas in the informal transport sector in

Africa: identifying partnerships and solutions

World Health Organization

 (WHO)

USD 10,000

Mar-2025

Nov-2025

3.

Dr. Wafula Wekesa

Creating Higher Education – Industry Programmes for the Semiconductor Industry

Horizon Europe

(European Commission) 

EUR 4,763,932

Feb-2025

Jan-2029

4.

Dr. Gladys Nyachieo

Unlocking Robust Governance Systems and Processes for Sustainable Mobility Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa Cities

Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)

 

SEK 6,000,000

Jan-2025

Dec-2027

5.

Dr. Job Bonyo

Mathematics REBoot Kenya: A Focus on Female Mathematics Teachers at the Junior Secondary Level under the New Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) in Kenya

 

Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund (ELSEVIER)

USD 4,000

Jan-2025

Dec-2025

6.

Dr. Collins Wagumba

Communicating Mobility and Access Research for Policy and Public Impact in Sub-Saharan Africa

Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)

SEK 200,000

Jan-2024

Apr-2025

7.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Biochar Composites for Sorptive Removal of Antibiotic Residues in Wastewater Systems

[A proposal requesting for assistance in meeting costs of LC/MS/MS equipment maintenance and consumables]

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Research grant

£ 5000

Feb-2024

April- 2025

8.

Dr. Wafula Wekesa

Training Mobility for Higher Education Students and Staff

ERASMUS + Programme

(European Union)

 

EUR 100,000

Sep-2024

Oct-2028

9.

Dr. Gladys Nyachieo

Technical Support for the Drafting of a Strategy Document “Turning Points for Sustainable Transport in Africa”

GIZ

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

KES  3,400,000

Oct-2024

Jul-2025

10.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Antibiotic Residues in Chicken Meat and in Wastewater: Quantification, Computational Modelling for their Fate and Transport and the Assessment of Potential Human Health Risks
[
A proposal requesting assistance in meeting some installation costs of Waters Quattro Premier LC/MS/MS System donated by RORO as a key equipment in the implementation of the above research]

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Research grant

£  4000

Feb-2022

Apr-2023

11.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Antibiotic Residues in Chicken Meat and in Wastewater: Quantification, Computational Modelling for their Fate and Transport and the Assessment of Potential Human Health Risks
[
A proposal requesting assistance in meeting some installation costs of Waters Quattro Premier LC/MS/MS System donated by RORO as a key equipment in the implementation of the above research]

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Research grant

£ 4000

Feb-2022

Apr-2023

12.

Prof. Geoffrey Kihara

Max Planck Partners Research Group

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany

EUR 100,000

Jul-2022

Aug-2027

13.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Antibiotics in food and environment: occurrence, role in the formation and transfer of resistance genes and antibiotics resistant bacteria, and their removal from wastewater using green adsorbents from locally available materials

National Research Fund

(NRF-Kenya)

KES 19,999,444

Apr-2020

Jun-2025

14.

Prof. Anastasiah Ngigi

Public Health Risks from Exposure to Antibiotics Residues, Antibiotics Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Animal Food Material: A Contribution to the National Action Plan on Prevention and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Kenya

Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)

USD 50,000

Dec-2020

Dec-2023

15.

Dr. Wafula Wekesa

 

Development of Small-Scale Wind-Solar Hybrid Systems for Electrification of Rural Households in Kenya

 

National Research Fund

(NRF-Kenya)

KSH 18,475,000

Oct-2019

Oct-2025

16.

Prof. Geoffrey Kihara

The Confocal Laser Scanning Miscroscope and the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Imaging Systems

National Research Fund

(NRF-Kenya)

KSH 65,990,555

Jun-2018

Jul-2022