Our Laboratory
Dedicated to Providing Quality Research Laboratory Services. SAMRI processes tailored to best fit needs, and we will ensure all questions are answered & help to define your goals.
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute (SAMRI) is committed to ensuring the best and globally accepted standards of our products from our credible partners. Whatever is out there from our laboratory is researched & tested to curb counterfeit in the health sector.
We aim at manufacturing life-saving immuno-biologicals, which are in shortage in Uganda and imported at high prices. Thereafter, several life-saving biologicals are manufactured at prices affordable to the common man and in abundance, with the result that the country has made self-sufficient for Tetanus Anti-toxin and Anti-snake Venom serum, followed by DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) group of Vaccines and then later on MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) group of vaccines.
Our Service
The Philanthropic philosophy of the company exists to bring down the prices of newer vaccines such as Hepatitis-B vaccine, Combination vaccine etc., so that not only Uganda's, but the entire under-privileged children of the world are protected from birth onwards.
Building a Healthy Community One Individual at a Time
SAMRI – Africa has crossed many milestones in technological advancement by installing robotic arm for virus handling, cell factory and cell cube for growing cells, facilities for the manufacture of polysaccharide and recombinant vaccines and for monoclonal antibodies.
Dedication. Compassion. Innovation.
In today’s competitive environment, running an efficient independent pharmacy means lower costs, higher margins and less stress for all parties involved. Creating efficiency in your pharmacy is a combination of concentrated effort and strategic planning
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute – SAMRI is aiming at filling that gap in making sure the pharmacies and the concerned parties never run out of supply. The right quantities in the right measurements with the right and un-matched global qualities is what Serum Africa Medical Research Institute – SAMRI aims at achieving.
Caring For The Growing Needs Of Our Community
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute – SAMRI carries out vaccine trial to aim at establishing the safety and efficacy of a vaccine prior to it being licensed and used on humans especially Ugandans. Vaccine candidate drug is first identified through preclinical evaluations that could involve high throughput screening and selecting the proper antigen to invoke an immune response.
Improving Health In Our Communities
Uganda as a nation has development goals among which is to have a healthy generation that will contribute positively to the national development. Serum Africa Medical Research Institute – SAMRI is responding to this by availing vaccines and medicines to the population on time and affordably
The second National Development Plan 2015/16 – 2019/20 was launched and sets Uganda’s medium term strategic direction, development priorities and implementation strategies. The NDP’s theme is “Strengthening Uganda’s Competitiveness for Sustainable Wealth Creation, Employment and Inclusive Growth” and the thrust is to accelerate transformation of Ugandan society from a peasant to modern and prosperous country within 30 years.
Passionate About Medicine
Substandard and falsified (SF) medical products, including vaccines, biologics, diagnostic tests and medicines, are widespread due to poor manufacture (substandard medicines) or deliberate falsification. SF medical products jeopardise national, regional and global attempts to improve access to effective health care because they lead to avoidable morbidity, waste financial resources and may contribute to drug resistance.
Quality Makes All The Difference
State of the art Research and Laboratory Equipment at Serum Africa Medical Research Institute – SAMRI make it possible for the production and supply of globally accepted quality and quantities
Dedicated to Providing Quality Research Laboratory Services. SAMRI processes tailored to best fit needs, and we will ensure all questions are answered & help to define your goals
Vaccination
In Uganda, from 3 January 2020 to 6:27pm CEST, 6 July 2021, there have been 84,116 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,193 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 July 2021, a total of 937,417 vaccine doses have been administered
Research
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute - SAMRI is as Uganda's No. 1 biotech company, manufacturing highly specialized life saving biologicals like vaccines using cutting edge genetic & cell based technologies, antisera & other medical specialties
Distribution
With the latest technology in high fragile medico handling, we offer transportation of the vaccines and other medicines in the right temperatures and intact conditions
Testing
Serum tests are performed by drawing blood from a patient and spinning it down to separate the cellular components from the liquid serum, which contains soluble analytes such as hormones
Latest Industry News
Everything happening in the medical world on the African continent as it unfolds in the latest news and events. Know about how African medical fraternity is responding to the most pressing health issues
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THE FIRST EVER MULTI-ANTIGEN VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
Harare, 1 July 2021 – UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and WHO have partnered with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to launch a new vaccine campaign introducing typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into the routine immunisation schedule across the country.
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FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE AGREEMENT TO SUPPLY AU
The agreement will supply up to 220 million single-dose vaccines by 2022 as part of UNICEF’s broader support for the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) to help provide vaccines for the 55 AU Member States
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POPULATION BASED SURVEY ON COVID-19
Kampala – 16 March 2021- The Ministry of Health has embarked on a population based sero survey study for COVID-19 in Uganda as part of the national response to the pandemic. The survey seeks to establish the magnitude of the virus in Uganda.