Tanzanian Bio-X Lab

Our current East African project requires capstone funding to construct, equip and ship a technologically advanced biological research laboratory. “Bio-X in a box,” is to be reassembled on the campus of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania. With architectural and engineering designs already completed, and ongoing scientific collaborations and approvals in place, this internationally collaborative project seeks individuals and organizations to support the completion of the lab.

Tanzanian Bio-X Lab: Designed to emulate Stanford’s James H. Clark Center, new home of Stanford Univ.’s interdisciplinary Bio-X Program, the African Bio-X lab is a global capacity building endeavor. Team partners include: UDSM, Perkins & Will architects, Gayner Engineers, Forell/Elsesser Engineers (all of San Francisco); the Tanzania Council on Science and Technology; and specialists from Yellowstone National Park and the Harvard School of Medicine. Funding to date has come from the Sabes Family Foundation.

Significance: The Tanzanian Bio-X project addresses the very significant need of building life sciences capacity in East Africa. Through international academic and commercial collaborations, our organization has trained hundreds of Tanzanian university participants in higher learning skills. This project aims to further expand on prior successes, such as our 2005 collaboration between UDSM, the Tanzanian Council on Science and Technology and researchers from Yellowstone National Park where we mapped and developed geospatial databases of Tanzania’s important thermal features. This project trained six Tanzanian university students in Geographic Information Systems (GIS); as well as provided scholarships to three Tanzanian graduate students to study micro-biology at Montana State Unversity in Bozeman, MT.

The African Bio-X lab will take the processing power of important biological and pre-clinic investigations to a new level. The addition of a technologically modern lab at UDSM will heighten our access to Tanzania’s biological diversity; and the nature and frequency of viable sampling will drastically decrease the time-consuming, costly and regulatory-challenged shipment of samples back to U.S. labs for study.

This collaborative project is seeking $2 million to underwrite the construction, shipping, equipping and reassembly of this ground-breaking effort. The reassembly site at the University is just minutes away from Dar es Salaam’s large port infrastructure.

We invite your participation in our pioneering life sciences work in East Africa.

For Further Information, please contact William Fischer, Executive Director 650-862-7361

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