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The microbiologist tackling humanity’s next biggest killer

17 Nov 2021

Since childhood Stephen Baker says he had a grim fascination with poo. He caught the bug for microbiology and spent 12 years in Vietnam researching...

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Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi

Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research

21 Feb 2017

Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...

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Dr Vincent Owino, now conducting research in Kenya, was awarded a seed grant from the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund

Cambridge-Africa Programme: 58 institutions, 26 countries, and growing

06 Feb 2017

We ask how a 'matchmaking' programme that teams up Cambridge and African researchers is making expertise and resources available to support Africans...

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From left: O. Okunoye, T. Awosanmi, K. Simala and E. El-Nour

Conversations across continents

17 Mar 2011

Each year, academic dialogue is enriched at the Centre of African Studies by the arrival of a group of African scholars who spend up to six months...

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MRSA

Stopping superbugs in their tracks

01 Nov 2010

Work in resource-restricted healthcare settings in south-east Asia is defining the transmission of hospital ‘superbugs’ using low-tech diagnostics...

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Kenyan PhD student in Pathology Department

Helping African science to THRiVE

01 Oct 2010

Cambridge academics are helping to strengthen research expertise in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda.

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Africa

Revitalising research in Africa

01 Sep 2007

Following recent funding from the Leverhulme Trust, a new programme of academic exchange kicks off in October in the Centre of African Studies, as...

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