New England Biolabs has featured its 2016 Passion In Science awardees in its new catalog–including Seeding Labs!
We were delighted to find a profile of our organization, including our CEO and 2016 Humanitarian Duty awardee Nina Dudnik, right before the epigenitics section on page 268.
In case you missed it, you can watch Nina’s Passion in Science talk here:
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Garden City University College (GCUC) is training new generations of health care workers for a country that sorely needs them.
To fill a gap in Ghana’s health care system, GCUC introduced a medical laboratory technology program in 2013. However, the school lacked the necessary equipment to give students the hands-on training they needed to be prepared to work in medical and diagnostic labs upon graduation.
In 2016, with support from USAID, Seeding Labs sent GCUC a shipment of Instrumental Access equipment. It contained nearly 3 tons of scientific tools and supplies donated by 31 US-based corporations, universities, and research institutes.
Faculty and staff greet the container of Instrumental Access equipment upon its arrival at Garden City University College in August 2016.
The Department of Medical Laboratory Technology’s shipment included a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) machine, incubators, safety hoods, spectrometers, microscopes, a liquid separation system, laboratory refrigerators and freezers, and a biosafety cabinet.
Now, students have the equipment they need to hone their qualifications to care for patients when they graduate. Albert Acquah, chancellor and founder of GCUC, credits the equipment from Seeding Labs with opening “a world of opportunities in training and development of scientists.”
More than 1,500 students at GCUC are now using equipment from Seeding Labs to develop the skills they need to become medical laboratory technologists, biomedical scientists, nurses, midwives, and other critically-needed health workers.
“Seeding Labs has really made our school a legitimate science program. We can attract students who really want to learn,” says Acquah.
The impact extends beyond Ghana. The accreditation board sends officials from schools across Ghana to see GCUC’s labs, says Acquah, who has also been collaborating with the head of a medical laboratory school to set up a technical training college in Zambia.
The successful Garden City-Seeding Labs partnership was highlighted in the May/June 2017 issue of USAID’s FrontLines magazine: “Equipping the Next Generation of Scientists and Medical Workers in Ghana.”
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Here’s our monthly roundup of the latest calls and resources for May 2017. We’d love to know if something that we shared here aids you in your career–send us an email if so!
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Deadline: 28 July 2017
Does your university department need affordable lab equipment for teaching and research? Seeding Labs is a US-based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping talented scientists in the developing world conduct life-changing research. We invite you to apply now for our Instrumental Access program, which makes high-quality laboratory equipment and supplies more affordable to universities in low- and middle-income countries. Please see the Request for Applications for details.
Deadline: 12 May 2017
Call for projects 2018 in partnership with Flemish universities. TEAM and South Initiatives projects are departmental projects which focus on specific developmental problems. These projects aim at strengthening the research and education capacity of (a) partner institution(s) in the South by means of generating and exchanging/disseminating knowledge (create the conditions for uptake) and contributing to the fight against poverty in the concerned region/ country.
Deadline: 28 June 2017
The Biosciences eastern and central Africa – International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, located in Nairobi, Kenya, is a shared agricultural research and biosciences platform that exists to increase access for African researchers to affordable, world-class research facilities. The mission of the BecA-ILRI Hub is Mobilizing Bioscience for Africa’s Development by providing a centre for excellence in agricultural biosciences, which enables research, capacity building and product incubation, conducted by scientists in Africa and for Africa, and empowers African institutions to harness innovations for regional impact.
Deadline: Varies by course
With its development-oriented postgraduate study programs, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialized countries. Well-trained local experts, who are networked with international partners, play an important part in the sustainable development of their countries. They are the best guarantee for a better future with less poverty, more education and health for all. The scholarships offer foreign graduates from development and newly industrialized countries from all disciplines and with at least two years’ professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master’s degree at a state or state-recognized German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/PhD) in Germany.
Deadline: Varies by course
ICGEB offers postgraduate studies with the aim of obtaining the “Doctor Philosophiae” (PhD) degree in the life sciences. Thanks to specific agreements, the title can be awarded through a number of academic institutions of international standing, which include The Open University (UK) and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
15 May 2017
The Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineers was formed in 2012. The mission of the society is to promote and advance the profession of agricultural engineering in Africa. The society also seeks to become a key knowledge partner and visible policy advocate on the role of engineering and technology in the transformation and industrialization of agriculture in Africa towards Agenda 2063 and beyond – the Africa we want.
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