Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES Niger)
About
CERMES is a Nigerien public scientific and technical institution. Its missions are research, public health, and training.
It has a board of directors and a scientific advice board, as well as a Chairman of the Board of Directors and a CEO. Under the authority of the scientific direction, research is conducted through its four research units:
The Bacteriology Unit (UB)
The Virology Unit (UV),
The Malariology and Medical Entomology Unit (UPEM) and
The Health, Environmental and Climate Epidemiology Unit (UESEC).
Public health activities are carried out through its eight national reference laboratories (LNR):
LNR for antimalarial resistance,
LNR for meningitis, associated with the strip production laboratory,
LNR for cholera,
LNR for influenza,
NRL for diphtheria,
NRL for geohelminths and bilharzia,
NRL for environmental polio
NRL for hemorrhagic fever and arbovirus disease.
And its seven research laboratories:
Parasitology Laboratory
Medical Entomology Laboratory
Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
Immunology, Hematology, and Oncology Laboratory
Rodent Laboratory
Laboratory of Human and Social Sciences Applied to Health (SHS-Santé)
