The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), which has been conducting limited research activities at the Alert Medical Center for many years, today indurated its own separate building with research center involving 40 laboratories that ensures the quality and efficacy of locally produced drugs.
The research center is equipped with advanced genomics and bioinformatics facilities, as well as bioequivalence, which ensures the quality and efficacy of locally produced drugs. Built within the Ethiopian Federal University of Science and Technology, the center is inaugurated today Prime Minister of Ethiopia Dr. Abiy Ahmed.
During the inauguration it is stated great attention has been given by the government and the institute has been reformed and reorganized by proclamation, while the necessary construction and resources have been provided to it.
AHRI was established in 1970 by the Government of Ethiopia in collaboration with Save the Children Organizations of Norway and Sweden, and University of Bergen. Inaugurated on March 20, 1970 by Emperor Haile Selassie I, it was named after the Norwegian physician, Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who first described the leprosy bacillus (Mycobacterium leprae).
ARHI was initially established to investigate the pathogenesis and human immune responses of leprosy. However, it undertakes medical research in a wide range of diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, antimicrobial resistance, HIV various cancers, and other non-communicable conditions.
By the council of Ministers, Regulation Number 530/2023, when AHRI was restructured, in addition to the tasks and responsibilities it had previously, it was mandated to include traditional and modern medicine research and pharmaceutical industry development sectors.
