We run clinical studies, laboratory testing and genomic research in Kenya, alongside the people and institutions who will live with the results.
Before it was a city, this valley was a Maasai watering place. A railway depot grew up beside the stream, the depot became a capital, and the capital became where much of East Africa now comes for medicine, research and regulation.
We started here for a plain reason. The questions that matter most about health in this region are best answered by people who live in it, who know which clinic a mother trusts, which words a consent form needs in Kiswahili, and what a community expects to hear back once the study ends.
Four connected services, so a study can move from protocol to final report without changing hands at every stage. Use one of them or all four.
Phase I to IV trials and observational studies, from first feasibility check to close-out. We handle the visible work, like submissions and monitoring, and the quieter work of keeping participants informed, reimbursed and well.
A laboratory set up to serve both patient care and study endpoints, where every result can be traced back through the hands that touched the sample.
African populations hold more human genetic diversity than anywhere else on earth, and they are still badly under-represented in the reference data the world relies on. We help researchers study that diversity without taking it away from the people it belongs to.
Clean databases, analysis plans written before the data arrives, and results a regulator can audit line by line.
Every study is different, but the order of things rarely is. This is what working together usually looks like.
We read your protocol and tell you honestly whether Kenya is the right place for it, and if not, why.
Sites, populations and recruitment estimates built from clinic records and local knowledge rather than optimism.
Ethics committee review, Pharmacy and Poisons Board approval for trials, a NACOSTI research licence, and introductions to county health teams.
Enrolment, monitoring and lab work, with weekly updates you can read in five minutes.
Database lock and final report, then results shared back with participants and communities in words they can use.
Consent is a conversation in the participant's own language, with time to ask questions and take the form home. If someone can't explain back what they agreed to, we haven't finished.
Samples and data are stored in Kenya by default. Anything that leaves the country does so under an approved material transfer agreement, for the purpose people agreed to, and nothing else.
When a study ends, the people who made it possible hear what was learned. We plan and budget for that from day one, so it never gets cut at the end.
We work within Kenya's research framework as it is written, not as a formality: independent ethics review, Pharmacy and Poisons Board oversight of clinical trials, research licensing through NACOSTI, and the Data Protection Act, 2019, for everything that identifies a person.
Our partners range from global sponsors to a single investigator with a good question and a small grant. We give both the same attention.
If yours isn't here, ask it directly. We'd rather answer early than discover a problem halfway through.
Yes, and most of our sponsors are. We act as your team on the ground: we handle local submissions, contracts with sites, and day-to-day conduct, and report to you on whatever schedule your study needs.
Ideally before the protocol is final. A short conversation at the design stage can save months later, especially on recruitment targets, visit schedules and sample handling.
English and Kiswahili as standard, and local languages wherever a study population needs them. Translations are checked by back-translation and tested with people from the community before use.
Samples are stored in Kenya by default. Export is possible where the study requires it, under an approved material transfer agreement and only within the scope participants consented to.
We do. Some of the most useful work we see starts with one person and a modest budget. Tell us what you have and we'll tell you what's realistic.
A single page is enough to start. We'll come back with an honest view on feasibility, including when the answer is that Kenya isn't the right fit.
Nairobi, Kenya