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The Royal Society Pfizer Award has been awarded by the Royal Society since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. £60,000 is awarded as a grant for the recipient to carry out a research project that is linked to an African centre of scientific excellence, normally a University or equivalent research centre, and a further £5,000 is given directly to the prizewinner.[1]

Recipients

Source: Royal Society

  • 2006 Alexis Nzila
  • 2007 Hiba Mohamed
  • 2008 Enock Matovu
  • 2009 Linda-Gail Bekker, director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, for her outstanding research into tuberculosis and HIV co-infections in Africa
  • 2010 Collins Ouma of Maseno University, for his outstanding research into the effect of genetic variation in severe malarial anaemia (SMA) in children.
  • 2011 Julie Makani of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and Muhimbili University, Tanzania, for her outstanding research into using anaemia in sickle cell disease as a model for translating genetic research into health benefits
  • 2012 Martin Ota, for his outstanding research into the relationship of pneumococcal protein antibody levels to nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci in early infancy.
  • 2013 Abdoulaye Diabate, for his important work on the identification of mosquito swarming cues
  • 2014 Faith Osier, for her research on understanding the mechanisms of immunity to malaria infection in man
  • 2015 Gordon A Awandare, for his achievements in molecular and cellular studies of malaria, including how malaria parasites invade red blood cells and cause disease and Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, for his seminal work on viral haemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola, generating the foundation of our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and control of outbreaks of these viral infections.
  • 2016 Amina Abubakar, for her pioneering psychological research in East Africa and her work developing neurodevelopmental assessments.

References

  1. ^ "The Royal Society Pfizer Award". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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