Gearing up: DNA Sequencing Kits Arrive at EPHI

Tuesday March 25. Celebrating the arrival of the long-expected DNA sequencing kits at Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa.

From left to right: Atsbeha (senior scientist), Dr Melkamu (Deputy Director General of PHEM), Dr Dawit Wolday (international co-Principal Investigator EpiGen) – shaking hands with Dr Getachew Tollera, Deputy Director General (EPHI), Dr Geremew Tasew, national PI EpiGen.

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute team received the long-awaited DNA sequencing kits at the tail end of March 2025. These kits are critical for the project’s goals of sequencing genetic material to determine the nature of outbreaks from infectious diseases in Ethiopia!