The African BioGenome Project is a pan-African project that seeks to sequence Africa’s endemic and indigenous plants and animals.
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Afrigen will be a technology transfer and training hub: it shares technology and develops skills specifically around how to produce a safe, effective and affordable mRNA vaccine.
Scientists enjoyed informing, exciting and inspiring the public.
For anyone who has worked on crop improvement in Africa over the last three decades, the flood of misinformation around vaccines evokes an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Thanks to major science infrastructure, human resource training and education investment in African nations, the continent is well placed to lead from the front.
Some of the priorities were drawn from the World Health Organisation’s Roadmap; others were expressed by researchers in and from Africa as being important to the continent’s many contexts.
A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.
Most universities focus on teaching basic sciences with little reference to commercialisation of ideas and new technologies.
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Senior Advisor, African Academy of Sciences
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Professor of Plant Science, University of Pretoria
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Cornell University
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Research Professor, Cornell University
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Senior Atlantic Fellow in Health Equity, George Washington University
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Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick
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Professor of Biology, Case Western Reserve University
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Bioinformatician, European Bioinformatics Institute
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Mathematical Scientist & AIMS House of Science Manager, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Université de Yaounde 1
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Director of programmes, African Academy of Sciences
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Professor, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Genetics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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Professor, Business Development; Managing Director, Afrigen Biologics, North-West University
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University