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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, it should not be surprising that scientists around the world have been concerned about this matter ...

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 through a Press Release signed by the Registrar/Secretary of Council, Odisa C. Oleke ( Mrs.) on Tuesday, 1...

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 Medicine and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.  He is receiving Trask funding for a hand...

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, Microbiologist, and Mrs Josephine Bisong, Logistics personnel. Inaugurating the team on Wednesday in Calabar,...