Louis Banda
Louis Banda is the Laboratory Manager for MEIRU, responsible for day to day running of the laboratory research work both in Lilongwe and Karonga, sample storage, laboratory procurement, advising researchers on laboratory issues as well as assisting on budgets for studies involving the laboratories.
Louis is a qualified Laboratory Scientist having obtained a Post Graduate Diploma and a Masters in Infectious Diseases from University of London-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Louis joined MEIRU in 2007 as a Lab Technologist and was later promoted to assistant laboratory manager in 2014 before taking up his current position from July 2016.