Erikan Baluku

Biomedical laboratory technologist

Email: erikanbaluku@gmail.com

Erikan is a biomedical laboratory technologist undergraduate and has research interests in microbiology, synthetic biology involving using phages and molecualar biology using Crispr technology in diagnostics.

Cv and Awards

Education

Makerere University, Uganda 2016-2020

Hobbies

  • Traveling and interacting with other people
  • Music
  • Internet research
  • Reading novels and sports

Experience & Awards

Working with Medical Access Uganda limited as graduate trainee and King Ceasor  University as Medical laboratory technologist

Awarded a travel grant worth USD 100 by Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene to present a research paper in Kilimanjaro Christian University, Tanzania in September 2020

Awarded CAMTech Uganda Accelerator Program(CAP) grant worth USD 7000 as Lift Relief team in 2019 under the theme ” Harnessing Healthcare Delivery through Nursing and Midwifery

 

Current Projects

Antimicrobial activity of Ananas comosus on selected gram negative bacteria

Development of saliva based rapid diagnostic kit using crispr technology

Skills

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Synthetic biology
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Microbiology
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Molecular biology
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Data science
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Parasitology