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