A documentary drama on the genetics of hearing impairment produced by the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), has been selected as part of 20 winners for this year’s Falling Walls Engage contest and pitched before a global audience at the Falling Walls Engage Science Summit in Berlin held from November 07 -09, 2021.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) has held an event to climax the fourth edition of the annual Nufu Festival (NufuFest’21). NufuFest (which translates from the Twi language to mean ‘celebration of breast’ or breast Festival’) is the flagship breast cancer awareness campaign championed by Dr. Lily Paemka -Human Molecular Geneticist and lecturer at WACCBIP. The month-long festival seeks to create awareness by tackling long held beliefs and misconceptions surrounding breast cancer through various behavioural change communication approaches that encourage regular screening and self-examination. This allows for early detection and saves lives.
A delegation from the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), has paid a working visit to the Nyaho Medical Centre in Accra on Tuesday October 19, 2021.
A team from the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), led by its Director, Prof. Gordon Awandare, paid a working visit to Atlantic Lifesciences Ltd.
Research scientists from the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana have contributed as co-authors of the latest research paper on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Africa published in one of the most prestigious global high impact journals.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, (WACCBIP) at the University of Ghana has unveiled a new state-of-art next generation sequencing equipment at a short ceremony on the sidelines of the just ended 2021 WACCBIP Research Conference.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) has held its fifth Annual Research Conference at the WACCBIP Conference Hall, University of Ghana.
5Th Annual WACCBIP Research Conference to Open from July 21-23, 2021.
The 5th annual WACCBIP Research Conference opens from July 21-23, 2021, in the WACCBIP Conference Hall at the University of Ghana. The opening ceremony will start at 10 AM and can be attended physically or virtually via Youtube, Zoom, and Facebook.
The West Africa Science Leadership Programme has concluded the second edition of the career development and leadership workshop held from Wednesday, June 16 to Friday, June 19, 2021.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), has piloted a science communication toolkit in the form of a docu-drama as part of its public engagement activity for strengthening genetics research at the Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf located at Adjei Kojo in the Tema West Constituency of the Greater Accra region.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), completed between December 2020 and February 2021 a series of outreach events in parts of southern Ghana, providing free screening for exposure to SARS-CoV-2, under three additional phases of its overall COVID-19 research programme.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) is organising the fifth in its series of annual research conferences to provide a platform for graduate students of the Centre to present their research work to a wider audience of national, regional, and international senior scientists.
The Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology (BCMB) and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) are offering a Graduate Internship Programme for new graduates to work in an environment that supports and promotes the development of research leadership.
Postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD alumna of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Dr. Henrietta Mensah-Brown, has been awarded a fellowship under the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI).
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) on Tuesday, December 1, organised a health walk in commemoration of World AIDS Day to raise public awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and management.
The West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) completed on October 15 and 22 two events under its annual breast cancer awareness campaign, 'Nufu Festival'.
Council, at its meeting held on Thursday, 23rd December, 2021, considered and approved the appointment of Prof. Gordon Akanzuwine Awandare as Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Academic and Student Affairs (ASA). The appointment takes effect from 1st January, 2022. Prof. Awandare takes over from Prof. Daniel Frimpong Ofori, Provost of the College of Humanities who was appointed to act as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (ASA) from 27th October, 2021, until a substantive Pro Vice-Chancellor (ASA) is appointed.
In response to the ACE Partner call under the World Bank African Centres of Excellence (ACE) Impact project, seven ACEs have jointly established the West African Network of Infectious Diseases ACEs (WANIDA) to facilitate interactions, collaborations and networking among the infectious diseases ACEs, other health-related ACEs and non-ACE institutions in the sub-region, with an aim to address the inadequacies of existing health systems across Africa for responding to significant public health threats.
In response to the World Bank’s call for proposals for African Centres of Excellence, the University of Ghana proposed the establishment of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) at Legon.
