Dr. Eddy Odari

His outstanding academic achievements and his diverse church and social commitment helped him to obtain a KAAD scholarship in virology at JKUAT (2008-2010), which also included a six-month stay at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology at LMU Munich. As an outstanding Sur-Place Scholar and active member of the Kenyan KAAD family, he then applied for a PhD programme and returned to the same institute in Munich in 2011. His research in virology focussed on the development of simple tests for HIV - a very important project for application in Africa.