Physical Location: KEMRI Headquarters complex on Mbagathi road, Nairobi.
 

Mandates

1. Traditional medicines: Rationalization of traditional medicines in collaboration with traditional healers; evaluation of plant drugs using medicinal phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology; formulation of herbal remedies; antiparasitic agents of plant origin.

2. Socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of traditional medicine.
   

3. Drugs: experimental pharmacology and toxicology; biopharmaceutics and relevant pharmacokinetics; clinical trials.
   

4. Agents for the control and management of HIV/AIDS/STI Quality assurance of drugs: quality control and surveillance