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Prof. Walter Oyawa – Director General, National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) held a bilateral meeting with Dr. Richard Leakey and a team of researchers, from the USA on Friday, 8th October 2020. In attendance was Dr. Stephen Karimi – Director of Research Accreditation and Quality Assurance and Mr. Boniface Wanyama – Deputy Director for Registration, Accreditation and Quality Assurance. The USA team comprised of Lawrence Martin and Prof. Nengo, working for Turkan Basin Institute, a research institution … Continue reading “NACOSTI HOLDS BILATERAL MEETING WITH DR. RICHARD LEAKEY”

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are the first two women to share the prize, which honours their work on the technology of genome editing. Their discovery, known as Crispr-Cas9 “genetic scissors”, is a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells. They will split the prize money of 10 million krona (£861,200; $1,110,400). Biological chemist Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, commented: “The ability to cut DNA where you want has revolutionised the life sciences.” Not only has … Continue reading “TWO SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR DEVELOPING THE TOOLS TO EDIT DNA”

The falling walls lab competition was held virtually on Friday, 25th September 2020. The competition was hosted by the Training Center in Communication Africa (TCC Africa). Falling Walls Lab is an international forum for the next generation of early career innovators, trailblazers, creators, and visionaries. Its aim is to promote exceptional ideas and connect promising scientists and entrepreneurs from all fields on a global level. Participants, also known as Labsters, are given the opportunity to present their research, business model, … Continue reading “NACOSTI PARTNERS WITH TCC AFRICA TO HOST FALLING WALLS LAB COMPETITION NAIROBI, KENYA”

Deputy Director and Head of Research Licensing, Mr. Godfrey Pessah Kalerwa has been appointed to serve on the EASTECO Governing Board. Following Article 8 of the Protocol on the establishment of the East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO) and the official communication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Ref: No.2922/09.01/EAC/20): Mr. Kalerwa will serve the EASTECO Governing Board as a Scientist nominated by NACOSTI for a tenure of three (3) years. Mr. Kalerwa, is an expert … Continue reading “NACOSTI STAFF APPOINTED AS A MEMBER OF EASTECO GOVERNING BOARD”

The philanthropic educational foundation, the Yidan Prize Foundation, announced the 2020 laureates of its two education awards on Wednesday in Hong Kong.  The Yidan Prize is awarded in two categories. The Yidan Prize for Education Development was awarded to two women educators, Lucy Lake and Angeline Murimirwa from the Campaign for Female Education, for their dedication to the female education, while the Yidan Prize for Education Research went to US physicist Carl Wieman to celebrate his efforts to improve STEM … Continue reading “CHINA’S YIDAN PRIZE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2020 EDUCATION AWARD LAUREATES”

A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Charlette N’Guessan is the first woman to win the award, which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. N’Guessan and her team won the £25,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time. BACE API works by matching … Continue reading “A 26-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST WOMAN TO WIN ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING’S AFRICA PRIZE FOR INNOVATION”

International scholarships aimed solely toward women are meant to encourage female students to pursue higher education in subjects like finance, computer science, IT, science, mathematics, international business, etc. In this article, we have listed down 10 highly paid scholarships for women. Scroll down to learn more about them. These AAUW awards are sponsored by the American Association of University Women and are meant to provide assistance to international women to pursue graduate, research, and postgraduate programs in affiliated US institutions. … Continue reading “INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR WOMEN 2021/2022 – ISW INSTITUTE”

A Kenyan research programme is one of 11 that have received Sh1.8 billion from the globally acclaimed USA National Institutes of Health to establish cutting-edge research centres for emerging diseases such as Covid-19. Virology professor Kariuki Njenga, who is also a senior researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), will establish the Centre for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases-East and Central Africa (Creid-Eca), which will carry out studies on viruses such as the Rift Valley Fever and the coronavirus … Continue reading “DISTINGUISHED KENYAN SCIENTIST AWARDED SH1.8BN FOR RESEARCH CENTRE”