The Honourable Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Hon Dr. Tunji Alausa paid a one day working visit to Institute to unveiled NIMR Semi-quantitative Hepatitis B Virus Kit and commissioned the Centre for Human Virology and Genomics and Office for the National Health Research
The DG-NIMR Professor Babatunde Lawal Salako (Right) congratulating Director of Administration, Mr Nelson Nimlyat BITRUS on his completion of the 2024 9th Basic Stream Short Course on Strategic Leadership Ethics and Policy Making organized by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic (NIPSS), Kuru, Nigeria.
The DG, Professor Babatunde Lawal Salako & the senior management committee hosted members of the Senate Committee on health led by Senator Ipalibo Harry Banigo while on oversight function to the institute
The Director General, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research Prof. Babatunde Salako, on Monday, said the institute has discovered a new malaria vector called anopheles stephensi in northern Nigeria.
A group photograph of MGI, Spain Biomedical Engineer: Dr. Pablo, Sanchez Velasco (MD, PhD, EngTc EMEA FAS & FSE) and technical team members of the Central Research Laboratory (CRL with the Director-General / CEO, NIMR: Professor Babatunde Lawal Salako after successful installation and functional validation of the newly acquired automated DNA Library Preparation (MGSSP-100) and Next General Sequencing (NGS) (DSBSEQ-D50) equipment by the Institute.
The Institute HB has now created a Central Sequencing Laboratory for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Nigeria.