NIH, Wellcome Trust award millions to cultivate African genomic research
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
In an effort to ensure scientists in Africa – the "original cradle of all humanity," according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr Francis Collins – are able to take advantage of and effectively capitalize on the worldwide genomics revolution, the US government and the London-based global charity Wellcome Trust on 8 October awarded millions of dollars in the first series of grants aimed at spurring genomic research in kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, tuberculosis and African sleeping sickness.