UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (CONAS)

Sources of Research Funding

Sources of Research Funding

The research projects carried out at the college are funded externally and internally. At the moment CoNAS is managing 15 donor funded projects and 16 internal research funded projects.  Table 1.

Table 1 Financial summary

Funding Agency

Project Supported

UK Research Council
  • GlobalSeaweedSTAR
  • Short courses on scientific laboratory techniques and data management.

The Leverhulm-Royal Society Africa
  • Sustainable biofuel production from Ghanaian and Tanzanian seed crops.
  • Development of chemicals and useful products for Tanzanian Industries
  • 3 PhD Scholarships
  •  Purchase of scientific equipment.

European Commission
  • Linking biodiversity ecosystem function and services in the great Serengeti - Mara Ecosystem (GSME) (horizon 2020)
  • Research visits
  •  PhD Scholarship
  •  Book writing

Carnegie RISE
  • Southern Africa Biochemistry and Informatics of Natural products (SABINA), PHASE 3.

Swedish Research Council
  • Exploration of East Africa Herbal Resources to Control Major Health Challenges
  • Two PhD Scholarship
  •  3 M.Sc. students 

 

Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Program (EAUMP)

Two MSc Scholarships

National Institute of Health (NIH) USA
  • NIH H3ABioNET; Capacity building on Bioformatics.

Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)
  • Research on Bio-Pesticides in Southern African Regions (CoNAS-MBB18092

 

TARI- Naliendele
  • Investigations of Cashew Wilt Disease an Emerging Threat Caused by Fusarium
  • Two MSc Scholarships.

Swedish Research Link
  • Investigation of the Macrofungi Parasite Invading Cashew and Crops in Southern Regions of Tanzania (VR/ SRL /RG. 2013-6779)

Sida- SAREC
  • Capacity building in Interdisciplinary Molecular Biosciences
  • Bio-Nitrogen Fertilizer Project  
  • MSc Scholarship
  • Staff Study visits

 

Dutch Organisation for internalization in Education -NUFFIC
  • Tanzania-Dutch Energy Capacity Building (TDECB) under Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE TEP 
  • Staff training 
  • Gender sensitization
  • Purchase of Scientific equipments

NIBR - KOREA

Birds of Western Tanzania - A Pictorial Guide Book

  • Research
  • Book writing.

University of Dar es Salaam
  1. Development of a tissue culture protocol for multiplication of African Blackwood to Address Challenges of Climate Change’
  2. Development of a tissue culture protocol for multiplication of African Blackwood to address challenges of Climate Change’
  3. Phytochemical Investigation on Selected Aloe Species Indigenous to Tanzania Towards their Commercialization        
  4. Formulation, Chemical Characterization and Performance Test of Water Based Drilling Mud from Local Materials Found in Tanzania.  
  5. Investigation on the Effects of Industrial Processing on the Nature and Magnitude of Pesticide Residues in Tomatoes and Tea.
  6.  Enhancing Productivity of Taro and Yams in the Coastal Low lands of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar through Micro-propagation Techniques.     
  7. Phylogenetic Diversity of bacterial Communities and Pharmacological Activity of Cultivable Actinomycetes at the Momela Soda Lakes in Arusha National Park.
  8. Screening for anticancer splicing and antiHIV-1 activity from Tanzanian medicinal plant.   
  9. Isolation and Characterization of Actinomycetes, with Potential Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Applications, from Alkaline Hot Springs around Lake Natron.
  10. Investigations of cashew wilt disease an emerging threat caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Tanzania   
  11. Geochemical and age determination of the Litembo granitoids of Ruvuma region and assessment of their potential for hosting strategic metal
  12. Petrographic Analysis of Potential Helium Gas Reservoirs in Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania      
  13. Enhancing Productivity of Taro and Yams in the Coastal Low lands of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar through Micro-propagation Techniques