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Professor Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, Director of the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC) and Dean of the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences (SBAHS) has been awarded a $3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA to sequence the whole genome DNA of children with sickle cell disease (SCD) in Ghana. The grant application was submitted through the University of Pittsburgh where he holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics.

The West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC), University of Ghana welcomed the first cohort of students into its new flagship Master of Science (MSc) degree programme in January 2022.  The postgraduate genetic counselling programme is the first of its kind in Ghana and in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the third such programme on the continent. The