Ongoing Strategic Research Projects

The combination of the expertise of the active international collaborators and University of Nizwa team hence offers the unique opportunity to advance the research field of natural products in Oman and thus enhance Oman’s visibility in medicinal plants research. The successful outcome of the Center will lead to patentable and marketable results, with the possibility of launching industrial ventures through the formation of new companies or the collaboration with existing organizations. Overall, the current projects would move Oman into the small circle of countries that are actively discovering drugs from natural products for the future, a case in point of what the Oman Research Strategy aims for.

National Strategic Research Projects

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resource

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Transcriptomic of Dubas Bug.
✓   Genomics of Date Palm Trees.
✓   Genomics & Metabolomics of Mango Trees.
✓   Genomics & Metabolomics of Bananas.

Diwan of Royal Court

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Office for Conservation of Environment.
✓   Oman Botanic Garden.

Ministry of Health

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Molecular Epidemiology and Sequencing of SARSCoV-2 Virus.
✓   Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection among health workers.
✓   Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance.

Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Gene Bank of Oman.
✓   High Throughput Screening of Oman.
✓   Genetic Natural Resources.

International Strategic Research Projects

University of Oxford

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Chemistry of inflammation.
✓   Beta-lactam biosynthesis.
✓   Natural products chemistry.
✓   Development of new antiviral agents to treat Covid-19.

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Snakes genomics.
✓   Venome and anti-venom research .

University of Nebraska

Ongoing Strategic Research Projects
✓   Genomics and metabolomics of Boswellia genus.
✓   Metagenome of dessert plants.
✓   Whole genome sequencing of dragon trees .

Nice Sophia Antipolis University

Ongoing Strategic Research Project
✓   Essential Oil Research.

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Ongoing Strategic Resarch Project
✓   Natural and synthetic product.

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Ongoing Strategic Research Project
✓   Plant taxonomy.