LIFE SCIENCE NIGERIA INDUSTRY ROUNDUPS

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1. Hiring: Formulation and Development Manager at Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Lagos.

To apply click, https://g.co/kgs/oVi3uP3

2. Pfizer, Kano meet on development of research centre.
Pfizer Inc., New York and Kano State Government held their routine annual meeting on Tuesday to highlight the work of the International Independent Research Trust and its efforts in establishing a preeminent Research Centre. The Kano State government had provided land, while Pfizer provided funds for the establishment of the research centre at Dawakin Kudu, Kano.

The centre contributes to the research and control of diseases as well as the improvement of laboratories in Nigeria and West Africa.
READ MORE.

3. Nigerian biotech startup Syndicate Bio to implement new liquid biopsy offering to advance cancer diagnostics.
Nigerian biotech startup Syndicate Bio has partnered SOPHiA GENETICS, a cloud-native software company in the healthcare space and a leader in data-driven medicine, to become the first lab in Africa to make comprehensive genomic profiling and liquid biopsy widely available to patients throughout the entire continent. READ MORE.

4. NBRDA sensitises South-East stakeholders on biotechnology for healthy living.

The National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA), on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, sensitised farmers, extension agencies, MDAs, academia and students in Southeast on advancement of biotechnology and biosafety. The event was tagged One-Day Biosafety and Biotechnology Sensitisation Workshop for the South East zone with the theme “Genetic Modified Food Safety Stewardship: Fortifying Public Confidence”. READ MORE.

5. Hiring: Knowledge and Implementation Science Researcher at Sydani Group.
To apply click https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3920532509

Sydani Group is a leading management consulting firm dedicated to improving healthcare systems in Nigeria. We are committed to developing innovative strategies that strengthen immunization program implementation in sub-national consequential geographies in Nigeria, particularly focusing on states with high populations of zero-dose children.

6. “We’re Now Ashamed to Call Ourselves Graduates”—Pharmaceutical Technology Students React to NBTE, PCN’s Removal of Course.
“The NAPPTON body that is expected to fight for us does not care; they are old men and women fighting for themselves. With the situation on the ground, some of us are saying maybe we should return to any college of health to study the same course all over for three years. But again, that is just like spending five years in a polytechnic just to do direct entry for a three-year programme.”

A final-year student of the course also told FIJ that his dreams and those of his colleagues had been shattered following the scrapping of the course. READ MORE.

7. Why cost of pharmaceuticals are rising -NAFDAC.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has provided a hint on why the cost of drugs (pharmaceuticals) has taken a jump in recent time.
It said that devaluation of the Naira accounted largely for the rise in cost of production locally, and high exchange rate made procurement of raw materials and equipment imported for production extremely high, adding that due to difficulty associated with procurement of dollar, cost of the imported drugs has also hit the roof. He also added… READ MORE.

8. AstraZeneca begins worldwide withdrawal of COVID-19 vaccine.
AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has announced that it is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, worldwide.

According to the multinational pharmaceutical company, the vaccine is being withdrawn because it can no longer compete with updated COVID-19 vaccines, which tackle the new variant of the infectious disease. READ MORE.

Also, Read our previous Industry Roundups.

May 10, 2024