Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Moses Joloba

Biography

 Moses Joloba is the current head of department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He is the current head of laboratories and also heads the appointments and promotions committee of the department. Assoc. Prof. Joloba completed his MBChB at Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda, in 1994, after which he won a Forgarty Scholarship for Master of Science in Microbiology and PhD in Molecular Microbiology at Case Western Reserve  University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, with Dr. Philip Rather. In 1997, he joined Makerere University College of Health sciences as a faculty member, and in 2003 he established the Molecular Biology laboratory in the Department of Medical Microbiology. This laboratory focused on TB research and in 2006, molecular detection of MTC infections as a routine was introduced for the first time in Ugandan research labs. Assoc. Prof. Joloba won grants from WHO/TDR, SIDA-SAREC, NIH and the European Union for TB research ranging from basic to applied and clinical. His research focus is bacterial quorum sensing, TBmolecular epidemiology and drug resistance. Assoc. Prof. Joloba is the current director of Supranational Reference Laboratory  Uganda.

Research Interest

 Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Immune cells, AIDS

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