Fund Endows OAU Lab To Power Biomedical Research

The AMIR Fund for Education, Science, and Technology, done FirstBank Trustees had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), establishing a money dedicated to advancing probe successful molecular biology and oncology astatine the university.

The endowment is structured to enactment OAU successful 2 chiseled but related areas. First, it volition enactment biomedical and oncology probe efforts successful Professor Adebayo Shittu’s Laboratory wrong the Department of Microbiology.

Secondly, it volition found an yearly postgraduate probe fellowship grant to enactment master’s and doctoral students focusing connected molecular biology and oncology probe wrong the laboratory.
During the signing ceremony, AMIR Fund founder, Ridwan Sorunke, spoke astir his idiosyncratic transportation to OAU and Professor Shittu, who mentored him during his clip astatine the university.
“This endowment is rooted successful my gratitude for the acquisition I received successful this instauration and the guidance I was given. This money is designed to catalyse section financing and physique a robust model for technological probe close present successful Nigeria, ensuring that our brightest minds person the resources they need,” Sorunke said.
He besides emphasised that this inaugural is “the archetypal of many” and expressed anticipation that “with this template that has been designed, we would beryllium capable to prolong and proceed it on the line.”

The Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Professor Adebayo Bamire, thanked the AMIR Fund for the initiative, stating that it would beryllium “instrumental successful helping to standard guardant galore innovations successful the section arsenic good arsenic the schoolhouse itself.” He urged different alumni to travel this illustration and springiness backmost to their alma mater.
Professor Adebayo Shittu, laminitis of the Molecular Bacteriology Laboratory, highlighted however the money would importantly fortify the department’s work, recalling challenges helium faced during his ain PhD.

That experience, helium said, inspired his resoluteness to guarantee his students would not look the aforesaid difficulties, a committedness helium has upheld done his work.

The AMIR Fund for Education, Science, and Technology is an expandable endowment money committed to advancing education, science, and exertion astatine secondary and tertiary institutions successful Nigeria.
Rooted successful the idiosyncratic travel of its founder, Ridwan M. Sorunke, the AMIR Fund supports technological and technological probe and promotes acquisition excellence successful students and teachers done scholarships, awards, and grants.