Health Kenya

Kenyan scientist develops a vaccine

Research to develop a vaccine for a disease first identified in Kenya, is now being led, at one of the highest institutes of learning in the world, by a Kenyan.

 

Dr George Warimew

Dr George Warimwe

Dr George Warimwe is leading a group of researchers in The Jenner Institute at University of Oxford to develop a vaccine for Rift Valley fever. I wrote an article on his work in the Saturday Nation (13th February 2016), here is a link to the article…..

http://www.nation.co.ke/business/seedsofgold/Kenyan-researcher-makes-Rift-Valley-Fever-vaccine/-/2301238/3073980/-/dchvy6/-/index.html

 

Another Kenyan scientist doing great. Well done George!