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CAN funding opportunities+Syndicate Bio news
What do you think about using ChatGPT in science? For example, in a field like bioinformatics. Check out Halimat Chisom Atanda’s thoughts on it on LinkedIn.
News
📰 Syndicate Bio Launch: After 54gene stopped operations this year, we hear Dr Abasi Ene Obong alongside Dr Jumi Popoola and Estelle Dogbo are launching a new company. The catch is its offerings are quite similar to 54gene. To catch up on the story, check this article.
💹 SFA secures funding: The Science for Africa Foundation has announced a partnership of ≈$10.4 million with Grand Challenges Canada through the Being Initiative to manage mental health research programmes in low and middle-income countries. Learn more on their website.
Reads & Listens
📖A Preventive Measure For Gastric Ulcer: Interestingly, it's nutgrass. You didn't see that coming right? Catch the rest of the story on Sciworthy.
🎙️Improving health outcomes in inflammatory diseases: For the 3rd episode of the Graduate Students series, Wealth Okete interviews Marah Chibwana about her journey as a clinician-scientist and how her work on COVID19 in Malawi intersects her current research on rheumatoid arthritis at the University of Oxford. Listen to the Immunoafrica Podcast on Google Podcast or Spotify.
Opportunities
👩🏾🏫Join free bioinformatics for Biologists course: Wellcome Connecting Science is hosting a virtual course on Analysing and Interpreting Genomics Datasets. You can get more details in this tweet and on their website
🧪👩🏾🔬 Apply for the African Career Acceleration Fellowships: Applications to the second round of Crick Africa Network fellowships are now open. You can apply to get funding opportunities. Learn more on the CAN website.
👨🏾🏫Research Mentorship Call: Christopher Olowosoke, founder of B.KHREASE Academic Consult is offering a month-long research mentorship to undergraduates and final-year students. Don't miss it because Christopher knows his onions! Register for the mentorship opportunity through the B.KHREASE form.
Events
🥼 Register for the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) Open Institute Workshop: It is happening in the West African Region (hybrid event) and registrations are open. Learn more about the workshop and register through the Africa BP form.
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