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Your Say Author: Paweł Borowicz, Researcher, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. Image credit: Pawel Borowicz Did you know that the STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) scholarly publishing industry was worth US$25 700 000 000 globally in 2017 [1]? Have you heard about an enormous profit of above 30% [2] made by most commercial publishers? Roughly calculating, it will give us around US$7 700 000 000 that could have been spent on research instead. Therefore,...

AE-FUNAI gets first indigenous Vice Chancellor On By Peter Okutu A Professor of Medical Biochemistry who hails from Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state, Prof Sunday Oge Elom has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State. Prof Elom’s appointment has put to an end the agitation for an indigene of Ebonyi State extraction to become the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University. Until his appointment which was announced throug...

Dr. J. Paul Robinson, the SVM Professor of Cytomics in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Basic Medical Sciences, is one of six Purdue University researchers receiving a total of nearly $209,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund to help their labs commercialize their innovations.  The fund is a development program established to support projects that advance the commercial value of Purdue intellectual property. Dr. Robinson holds a joint appointment in the College of Veterinary ...

UNICAL VC inaugurates COVID-19 taskforce on campus On Kindly Share This Story: The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has inaugurated the COVID-19 Taskforce Central team for the institution under the leadership of Dr Kingsley Akaba. Other members of the team include Dr Paul Odey of the faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Dr Leku Odey, Director of Health Services, and Dr Alexander Peter, Public Health. The rest of the task force members are Dr Bassey Ubi, Microbiol...

With the full accreditation of courses and programmes in PAMO University of Medical Sciences by the National Universities Commission and other professional bodies recently, and the ongoing upgrade of its teaching hospital, all within three years of its establishment, the management of the institution is determined to take medical education in the country to the peak, Ugo Aliogo writes With the directive by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to universities in the country to resume on Ja...

2 UNILORIN lecturers win international research grants The duo won the grants after due consideration of various entries of 12 and 33 applicants in various categories. ADVERTISEMENT Two Senior lecturers of the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Gabriel Omotoso and Aminu Imam have won three research grants. The University of Ilorin Management disclosed that the notification was contained in separate letters signed by the D...

Updated: December 23, 2020 22:46 IST The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say Share Article AAA Medical workers wearing protective gears work at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020.   | Photo Credit: AP The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say   In a preliminary report posted on December 19, Dr. Andrew Rambaut from the Un...

Soremekun Professor Kayode Soremekun, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), in this interview with IYABO LAWAL speaks on the challenges of new universities, why the government must improve on funding to these institutions, and the need for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to focus on its core demand for improved infrastructure and welfare of members. By February 2021, you will bow out as Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Oye Ekiti. How far have y...

Despite 9 months ASUU strike, Unilorin appoints 99 new professors 53 will become full professors while 46 will become readers. ADVERTISEMENT Despite lack of academic activities since the Academic Staff Union of Universities began an indefinite strike in March, the University of Ilorin is set to promote 99 lecturers into the professorial cadre. The Appointment and Promotions Committee (A&PC) of the university recommended the promotions and appointments. According to the institution’s weekly p...