International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) 40d ago

The project is led by Christian Tiambo, Mike McGrew, Christine Muhonja, Marcel Blank, Moses Ogugo, Ascah Jesang, with funding from the Gates Foundation, FCDO (UKaid and BBSRC), and The Roslin Foundation. ILRI is gradually extending the technology to other African regions through capacity building at the AU-IBAR African Regional Animal Resources Seed Centre of Excellences (ARSCoEs), formally known as African Regional Gene Banks, and to South and Southeast Asia, via collaboration for ICAR-CARI (India), and other National Partners. The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) in Kenya has already been testing the use of the chimera approach to restore cryopreserved Kenyan indigenous chicken populations, the Surrogate host technology is expected to be applied at KALRO from the second half of 2026. Technology transfer from ILRI to KALRO is implemented by Christian Tiambo (ILRI Scientist), Christine Muhonja (ILRI-KALRO Joint Appointee Scientist), under the leadership of Samuel Mbuku (Institute Director KALRO-DRI at Naivasha, and Evans Ilatsia (KALRO Deputy Director General- Livestock). — Created by Annabel Slater. Chicken Rig (https://skfb.ly/6V6Hs) by FourthGreen, CC Attribution NonCommercial. Chick Baby Chicken Bird (https://skfb.ly/olFnr) by Rukh3D, CC 4.0