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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has toured the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Tropical Medicine. Among the areas he toured were the Biodiversity lab, sterilisation room and amplification lab. This was part of his itinerary for his trip to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on November 4, 2025, as part of his state visit to Ghana. He was in the company of Odeneho Okyere Kusi Ntrama, Essumegyahene, Frederik Landshöft, German Ambassador to Ghana, Dr Frank Amoakohene, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon Richard Agyeman-Boadi, Kumasi Mayor and other German officials. This is a state-of-the art research facility which sits on a 300sq meter land on the South-End of Asuogya Road on KNUST Campus with research laboratories to conduct research in tropical medicine, with Ghanaian and German Scientists working in close collaboration. It is an external research and training facility of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg and the Ministry of Health/KNUST in Ghana. It was set up as an autonomous unit within KNUST under a five-member Advisory Board. It was inaugurated in November 2003, and expanded to include a cold house in 2016, an entomology wing in 2020 and an outbreak preparedness block in 2022. Following introduction of the Collegiate System at the KNUST, KCCR was integrated as a Research Centre under the College of Health Sciences. It hosts Research Units including Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases & Buruli ulcer, Molecular Diagnostics, Infection Immunology, One Health Virology, One Health Bacteriology, Filariasis and Onchocerciasis, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Malaria and Entomology, Vector Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Infection & Non-Communicable Diseases, Clinical Research, Global Health & Infectious disease. Story by Hajara Fuseini
