Kibanyi is a micro-biologist working on a Ph. D. at George Washington University. The project involves extracting a natural mosquito repellent from the leaves of the Lantana Camara plant which grows wild in Uganda. The project will conduct randomized controlled clinical trials using skin lotion and aerosols containing the Lantana plant extract in three rural districts in Uganda. Kibanyi says the hope is not only to fight malaria, but also to develop Lantana as a cash crop and creation of jobs through manufacturing of plant-based mosquito repellents locally to improve rural family incomes. In the photo, Peter Kibanyi (left) with colleagues Robert Balikudembe and Fred Turyaguma
