A lecturer in Bayero University, Kano , Dr Sulaiman Sadi Ibrahim, has emerged winner of the prestigious Wellcome Trust Career Development Award of the United Kingdom worth £969,680 (about N500 million)
Ibrahim, was a Wellcome Trust fellow between 2017 and 2019, is the first Nigerian to win the award due to his creation of the comprehensive, functioning molecular biology laboratory he created in a public university in northern Nigeria.
Dr. Ibrahim is to carry out a project spanning eight years to improve the infrastructural capacity in Nigeria; and support both undergraduates and postgraduate students.
The lecturer hails from Getso town, in Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State.
In a post he made on Centre for Research in Infectious Disease (CRID) website, Ibrahim said of his Ph.D thesis, “My thesis addressed the role and allelic variation of resistance genes, the cytochrome P450s from the major malaria vector An. funestus on insecticides resistance across Africa.”
