Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation collaborate to discover and develop an accessible in vivo gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
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Professor Mahmoud Sani, Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiologist, Bayero University, Amino Kano Teaching Hospital Professor Mahmoud Sani, a Professor of Internal Medicine and a renowned Cardiologist at the Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital has been appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Management Services) by The University Governing Council, Bayero
The 26th Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA) Games was officially opened on 6th January, 2020, at the University of Ghana’s Mensah Sarbah Field. The Games which is under the distinguished patronage of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, is themed “Integrating Sports into Academia for Youth Empowerment and Development.” In his welcome address, the Vice-Chancellor
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The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu led a six-member delegation visiting four institutions of higher education in Tokyo, Japan from 8th -18th December, 2019. The purpose of the visit was to develop and expand a framework of cooperation and collaboration between the University of Ghana and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, the Tokyo University of Agriculture
Professor Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, PhD, Dean of the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences (SBAHS), College of Health Sciences, and a prominent sickle cell disease scholar has led a 32-member team of hematologists, pulmonologist, cardiologists, pediatricians, geneticists, ethicists, and basic scientists to secure a U54 Center grant of US$5.5 million from the National Institutes
Prof Lorna Awo Renner of the Department of Paediatrics, School of Medicine and Dentistry has received The First Lady’s Excellence Award for Medicine/Health Care Delivery. Prof. Renner, was one of the eight women recognized by the First Lady on International Women’s day for excellence in various fields. Her citation reads: “A Professor, Doctor, Lecturer and
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Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu VC of the UG (2nd left), joined by the team from the university receiving the signed document from Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh (left) Nine African Centres of Excellence for Development Impact (ACE impact) have signed a performance and funding agreement with the Ministry of Education to focus on scaling up postgraduate
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NEWS RELEASE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA SCIENTISTS SEQUENCE GENOMES OF NOVEL CORONAVIRUS Scientists at the University of Ghana have successfully sequenced genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic, obtaining important information about the genetic composition of viral strains in 15 of the confirmed cases in Ghana. The scientists, who work at the
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Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (3rd left) and Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu (2nd right), Minister of Health, admiring the partnership artefact after the launch of the implementation of agreement. With them are Dr Vas Narasimhan (4th left), Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare (2nd left), Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, and Professor Kwaku Ohene-Frempong (right), President of the Sickle
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Professor Ofori-Acquah, Dean, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, and Centre Leader of WAGMC Professor Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, Dean, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, and Centre Leader, West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC) has been appointed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States (US), as Permanent Member
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