Ernestine Kubi, a fellow at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) and a biomedical research scientist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) on the H3Africa Kidney disease research project, has won this year's Young Scientist Award.
The prestigious award, given to young and upcoming scientists who showcase their research work and findings at the University of Ghana College of Health Sciences' Biennial Scientific Conference, was given to Ernestine after she presented her work on the sickle cell trait as a potential risk factor for chronic kidney disease in an African population.
Ernestine's lab group, which includes another WACCBIP fellow, Priscilla Abena Akyaw, has been working to identify the genetic and environmental factors that could increase the risk of developing complex diseases such as Chronic Kidney Disease and Sickle Cell Disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ernestine and Priscilla recently presented their research at the 11th conference meeting of the African Society of Human Genetics in Kigali, Rwanda. They won the Best Poster Presentation award at the conference. The award came with a one-year subscription to Nature Genetics for themselves and the rest of their lab members.
WACCBIP congratulates both Ernestine and Priscilla for their excellent work.
