Research Centers highlights BIMI’s research orientation and scholarly engagement by students and faculty.

Research Centers

BIMI's research activities are organised through four dedicated Research Centres, each focusing on a domain of particular relevance to the health challenges of the Kyrgyz Republic, Central Asia, and the global populations from which our students come. Each centre is led by a faculty director with an active research portfolio, supported by dedicated staff, student researchers, and external collaborators.

The Research Centres are not isolated silos — they are interconnected, with many projects involving co-investigators from multiple centres. This collaborative model reflects the reality of modern medicine, where the most important clinical problems require expertise from multiple disciplines working together.

Centre 1 — BIMI Centre for Infectious Disease & Antimicrobial Resistance (CIDAR)

CIDAR addresses one of the most urgent health security threats of the 21st century — infectious disease and the growing global crisis of antimicrobial resistance. Located in Central Asia, BIMI is ideally placed to study infectious diseases that are both locally endemic (tuberculosis, brucellosis, echinococcosis, leishmaniasis) and globally emerging (COVID-19, Monkeypox, haemorrhagic fevers), as well as the AMR crisis that threatens to render decades of antibiotic advances obsolete.

Centre 2 — BIMI Centre for Non-Communicable Disease Research (CNCDR)

Non-communicable diseases — cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and mental health disorders — now account for the majority of mortality and morbidity in the Kyrgyz Republic and across Central Asia. CNCDR exists to generate the high-quality local evidence that is essential for designing effective NCD prevention and management programmes in this region, where internationally derived guidelines may not fully apply.

Centre 3 — BIMI Centre for Maternal, Child & Reproductive Health Research (CMCRH)

Reducing maternal and child mortality and improving reproductive health outcomes are among the most powerful drivers of social development and economic progress. The Kyrgyz Republic has made significant progress on maternal and child health indicators in recent decades — but gaps remain, particularly in access to quality antenatal care, management of obstetric complications, neonatal health, childhood nutrition, and adolescent reproductive health. CMCRH provides the research infrastructure to identify these gaps and test solutions.

Centre 4 — BIMI Centre for Medical Education Research & Innovation (CMERI)

How do we know that the way we teach medicine actually produces better doctors? The Centre for Medical Education Research & Innovation (CMERI) exists to apply rigorous scientific methodology to the study of medical education itself — evaluating teaching methods, assessment tools, curriculum designs, and technology-enhanced learning approaches to ensure that BIMI's educational model is evidence-based, not merely traditional.

CMERI is also BIMI's platform for contributing to the global medical education research community — publishing findings from our educational innovations and clinical training models so that other institutions, particularly those in resource-limited settings, can benefit from what we learn.

Join a BIMI Research Centre

Faculty Application: Senior lecturers and consultants with an active research portfolio may apply to affiliate with one or more BIMI Research Centres. Contact the Research Cell Director at research@bimiedu.com with your CV and research statement.

Student Application: Students in Years 2–5 may apply to join a Research Centre as student co-investigators through the annual BIMI Student Research Programme call (advertised each September).

International Researcher Visits: Visiting researchers from partner institutions may be hosted at BIMI Research Centres for periods of 4–12 weeks under our Visiting Researcher Programme.