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| | UG Student Receives Best Student Oral Presentation at Ghana Biomed 2011 |    | | | Ms. Gifty Tetteh, a student at the Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Ghana received one of the two awards for the best student oral presentation at the 4th Annual Scientific Conference of the Ghana Biomedical 2011 Convention which took place recently under the theme: “Harnessing Biomedical Science for National Development”. She presented her final year undergraduate project work in Biomedical Engineering on a low-cost sterilization system.
The three-day Convention which was officially opened by Professor Kwabena Antwi Danso, Dean of the School of Medical Sciences and Acting Provost of the College of Health Sciences brought together scientists, practitioners and students from Ghana, North America and Europe.
Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana and Professor Henry Colecraft from Columbia University delivered the keynote addresses. Current research and new findings spanning (i) Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Research and Public Health, (ii) Genomics, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, (iii) Drug Research, Development, Treatment and Toxicology and (iv) Microbial Pathogens were presented during the oral sessions, in addition to satellite workshops and mini sessions that treated issues such as professional ethics in science for students, obtaining research funding, forming industry-university partnerships for solving nutritional problems and a hands-on laboratory workshop where students handled and used the worm Caenorhabditis elegans for simple experiments.
In all, there were 36 oral presentations including 6 student proposals and 23 posters. A number of students received awards for various for their proposals and project work.
The Ghana Biomed 2011 also saw the handing over of the Presidency of the Convention from Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana to Dr. Akwasi Anyanful of Emory University (USA) for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Professor Solomon Ofori-Acquah of Emory University (USA) was elected Vice-President (President-elect) for 2012-2013. Dr. Eric Ofori of the University of Ghana was elected Secretary for 2011-2013 and Mr. Reuben Ayivor-Djanie (KNUST) was elected as the student board member. Professors Karen Duca (KNUST) and Winfried Amoaku (University of Nottingham, UK) were re-elected to second terms on the Board of Directors and Professor Myron Williams (Clark Atlanta University, USA) and Ms. Cherie McCown (Noguchi Memorial Institute Medical Research) were newly elected to the Board.
Ghana Biomed 2012 will be held next July at the University of Ghana. | | | | Date Published: 23/08/2011 | | | |   |
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