Train the Trainer, Teachers, Research Staff, Research Assistants from Industries in Biotechnology.

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     * Branding

SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAMMES 2025

The Caribbean Centre for Research in Bioscience (CCRIB) within the Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of the West Indies, will be hosting its first Summer Research Programme in July 2025. The theme is ‘Foundations of Research: Building Scientists of Tomorrow’.

The research programmes are listed below:
1. Programme:- Introduction to Computational Biochemistry: Application in Molecular Modelling and Drug Design
Name of facilitator: Dr. Irvine Williams, Senior Research Fellow
Date: June 30th – July 7, 2025
Cost: $60,000 (JM) or $375 (USD)

2. Programme:- Introduction to In Vitro Plant Research for Agrobiotechnology (2 parts)
Name of facilitator: Dr. Sylvia Mitchell, Senior Lecturer
Date: July 1 - 3 and July 22 - 24, 2025
Cost: $40,000

3. Programme:- Research Methods in Cellular Biology for the Development of Nature Based Cancer Therapies.
Name of facilitators: Prof. Rupika Delgoda, Head of Department and Dr. Kimberley Foster, Research Fellow
Date: July 9 - 16, 2025
Cost: $60,000

4. Programme:- EcoScience Camp - Building Sustainability through Permaculture and Biodiversity (Residential)
Name of facilitator: Dr. David Picking, Senior Research Fellow
Date: July 13 – 20, 2025
Cost: $85,000

5. Programme:- Research Methods in Insect Vector Biology
Name of facilitator: Dr. Sheena Francis, Senior Research Fellow
Date: July 17 – 24, 2025
Cost: $60,000