African research is receiving a major visibility boost with the indexing of 10 national funders in Dimensions, the world’s largest linked research database. “This project connects the research outputs ...

Africa’s health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialise its own medical innovations, rather than rely on ...

South Africa has begun the first human trials of a locally developed HIV vaccine to defeat a virus that still kills around one person per minute worldwide.

Mwila Mulubwa is an investigator in the drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics team at the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Leon Mutesa is a ...

The call was made on Monday in Abuja at the SPARK Africa Translational Research Bootcamp and Conference, which brought ...

An assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University in New Jersey, Dieng leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South. The ...

African immigrants are among the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the U.S., numbering over 2.3 million. While they account for a large number of newcomers to the country, their unique ...

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal ...

“It is very clear that we need to improve awareness. These doctors are very talented, they know what needs to be done, but infrastructure needs to be improved to promote research,” senior study author ...

Across universities, laboratories, think tanks and policy institutions worldwide, these African scholars are producing work that bridges theory and practice, informing academic debate, government ...