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Photo of Judges and winners at Jesus College

Innovation for Africa's Climate Future

25 Sep 2024

̽��ֱ��2024 Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Prize Competition recognises innovative ideas in...

̽��ֱ��psychiatrist who faced a dilemma but couldn’t turn his back on his people

23 May 2022

Children in West Africa with cognitive difficulties are going undiagnosed because the tests used to assess their mental health are based on Western...

Raise the floor: education that works for everyone

24 Jan 2022

̽��ֱ��evidence that convinced the international community that putting disadvantaged children first creates education systems that work for everyone.

Leptospirosis in farmers, Indonesia, Credit: CDC Global/Evi Susanti Sinaga

Global teamwork brings low-cost test for Weil's disease a step closer

10 Jul 2017

An on-the-spot, low-cost diagnostic test for leptospirosis (Weil's disease), a bacterial infection recognised as a neglected disease by the World...

Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research

21 Feb 2017

Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...

Of cabbages and cows: increasing agricultural yields in Africa

13 Feb 2017

Africa’s food requirements, along with its population, are growing fast. Three research programmes ask how a better understanding of viruses...

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

07 Feb 2017

When Ghanaian Abu Yaya wondered why his country imports all of its electroporcelain – a small but crucial component for electrical power transmission...

Reducing number of infectious malaria parasites in donated blood could help prevent transmission during transfusion

21 Apr 2016

A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of...

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