Kenya

Activated Carbon: Houseplant System as a Low Cost Method of Air Purification for Improving Indoor Air Quality in Urban and Sub Urban Areas in Kenya

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

This project explores the air purification properties of various indoor landscaping plants (Sansevieria trifasciata, Spathiphyllum wallisii and Epipremnum aureum), to remove pollutants such…

Conjugated Linoleic Acid, Kefiran and Interferon Beta-1a's Anti-Proliferative and Anti-Carcinogenic Effects in vitro BT-474 (ATCC® HTB-20™) Cell Lines for Breast Cancer Treatment

Translational Medical Science

This project analyzes the anti-tumoral properties of components derived from milk kefir. This will provide an effective, safe and a cheap means of treating breast cancer. Milk kefir treatmen…

Nanopatterned Polystyrene Polymer with Bactericidal and Bacteriostatic Properties against Salmonella enterica ATCC 43975 and Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579

Biomedical Engineering

The current methods used to kill and inhibit microbes though rapid and accurate, these methods involve the use of chemicals and antimicrobial drugs which are harmful and can lead to the deve…

Acacia xanthophloea Characterization and Preservation Techniques of Sapwood (Plant Xylem) as a Low Cost Membrane Filtration Device for Arid and Semi-Arid Areas in Kenya

Third Award

This project explores the water purification properties of the sapwood of Acacia Xanthophloea to provide safe and clean water to arid and semi arid areas in Kenya that is cheaper and easily…

Detection of Salmonella enterica Dt104 and Vibrio cholera O134 using Polyclonal Antibodies Immobilized on Conducting Polyaniline Nanowires

In this project we have investigated conducting polyaniline nanowires based biosensor to detect Salmonella entrica DT104 and Vibrio cholera O139 by converting antigen-antibody binding event…

Biohydrometallurgy

In many of the countries involved in extraction processes, most of the pollution problems are usually mining related. Normally, a huge amount of material is dug from the ground and then crus…

Cationic Peptides--Pardaxin: A Compound that Stimulates Phospholipase A2 Infused with Silver Nano-Particles Displays an Antiviral Activity on HIV-1 Replication and DNA Mutation

Biomedical Engineering

HIV-1 affects the immune system by destroying CD4 cells and thus weakening the immune system. Our main aim was to prepare to prepare pardaxin and it assess its effect on HIV virus? an antimi…

Biofuel from Tree Fungus

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The endophytic tree fungus, Gliocladium Roseum from the Ulmo tree, expels hydrocarbons which could be used as fuel. The purpose of this project is to identify the fungus, Gliocladium Roseum,…

Multiple Chemical Generator

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

With the world population increasing by 60 million every year, the search for clean water becomes a growing concern especially in Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs). Waste of anim…