Mbarara University of Science & Technology

Succeed We Must

Prof. Celestino Obua

Prof. Celestino Obua

Vice Chancellor

The Vice Chancellor, of Mbarara University of Science and Technology and a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics with a PhD in Pharmacology and a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (FUNAS). I am the MURTI Program Director, (D43TW010128 PI: Obua and its MADRI Supplement D43TW010128-04S1 PI: Obua on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias [AD/ADRD]) a program that has trained to date three cohorts of junior faculty at MUST in conducting research in mental health, CVD, neurology, HIV/AIDs and related morbidities (total of 21 junior faculty), and AD/ADRD research (12 fellows). I am also the PI of the “Health-professional  Education  Partnership Initiative  –  Transforming  Ugandan  Institutions  Training  Against  HIV/AIDS”  (HEPI-TUITAH) R25TW011210 PI: Obua and its supplement “Sexual  Harassment  Prevention  and  Response  Training  (SHarPResT)”  R25TW011210-04S1 both of which are currently running focused on training undergraduate students on prevention, care and research towards supplementing the national efforts in the fight against HIV, and promotion of sexual harassment in the research environment respectively.