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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Co-founder, President/CEO, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">African Biosciences Ltd</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">African Biosciences Ltd </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">(ABL) is a new, innovative life sciences company established in August
2015 to serve the Nigerian biosciences research market. Our vision is to be the
premier and cutting-edge bioscience research service provider and molecular
diagnostics and DNA testing provider, executed by providing the following: (1)
easy access to bioscience research reagents, supplies and equipment in Nigeria,
(2) bioscience research advisory services, (3) bioscience research training and
capacity building, (4) lab-for-rent and contract research services in
state-of-the-art bioscience research laboratories, (5) molecular diagnostics
and (6) DNA testing services for the private individual, judicial/law
enforcement and clinical markets. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We have a modern commercial research laboratory in
Ibadan with facilities for genomics, proteomics, metabolomics. We also have
platforms for DNA sequencing, gene expression profiling, chemical and
biochemical analysis, histological, immunological and cell biology assays.
These facilities will be of benefit to agricultural research, biomedical
research, healthcare delivery and the judicial systems in Nigeria. We
provide an innovative<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;">lab-for-rent
</span></i></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-weight: normal; padding: 0cm;">and </span></b><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;">contract research service</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to researchers and<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk508749752"></a> we are the "<i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;">boots on the ground</span></i>" partner for clients in and
outside Africa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Many of the big challenges facing Africa today are
biological and have solutions in biological research and knowledge - runaway
population growth, hunger, and malnutrition, endemic infectious diseases and
climate change. Yet, bioscience research capacity is dismal at 86 scientists
per 1 million people (compare that to over 4,600 in North America and Europe
and over 600 in China). The whole of Africa of 1 billion people publishes fewer
biosciences research papers in journals indexed by Web of Science (Thomson
Reuters) than The Netherlands which at 17 million people publishes 27,000 per
year, more than the whole of Africa combined. Nigeria by the way only publishes
1,500 a year with nearly 190 million people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Africa continues to lag in the field of scientific research. This can
be attributed to lack of equipment, skilled manpower, and poor policy
priorities of its governments. After over half a century of independence of
most African countries, there is a slow realization that investment in
scientific research to build a knowledge economy is how to secure the future
for modern development. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Many research students in the life
sciences face massive obstacles when carrying out their research projects
required to earn advanced degrees. This has produced a long running crisis and
vicious cycle where the quality of research is poor and therefore lacks the
rigor to move the frontiers of knowledge on the one hand, and produces so
little value that can impact developmental problems in Africa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There has been some good news recently
that scientific output has doubled in the last decade along with Africa’s share
of citable work. Although that figure only went from less than 0.5% to just
over 1%, it shows that there is still hope. The African Union through its New
Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) has committed to making more
investment in scientific research. Building scientific capacity in Africa
requires strong advocacy and continued education of African academic and
research leaders.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Professor Ikhide G. Imumorin is Co-founder, President & CEO of
African Biosciences Ltd. He brings very strong scientific and technical
background in bioscience research to the company from over 20 years in US
academic system as a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher and professor
and currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He was recently a professor at Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York and has mentored over 60 students, postdoctoral
associates and research scholars in the past decade from the US, Africa and
Southeast Asia, with academic output of over 160 book chapters, journal
articles, presentations and invited talks in countries in Africa, Asia,
America, Europe and Oceania. He earned his BAgricTech from Federal University
of Technology, Owerri, MTech from Federal University of Technology, Akure and
PhD in Animal Genetics & Genomics from Texas A&M University, College
Station</span></span></i>

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