Nigeria needs biomedical research centres, sustainable funding – Prof Otuechere

A telephone has been made for Nigeria to found good equipped biomedical probe centres, supply sustainable authorities backing and fortify collaboration among scientists to make safer, much effectual and affordable healthcare solutions.

Professor Chiagoziem Otuechere, a Professor of Phytomedicine and Biochemical Toxicology successful the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, made the recommendations astatine the institution’s 25th inaugural lecture connected Tuesday.

Professor Otuechere besides called for the constitution of 2 good equipped Centres of Excellence successful Biomedical Research successful each of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to fortify technological probe and innovation crossed the country.

According to him, “The projected centres should person authorities of the creation instrumentality and facilities, with structured, twelvemonth circular entree for scientists moving crossed antithetic biomedical disciplines.”

Otuechere besides advocated a statesmanlike mandate to empower biomedical researchers with proven expertise, stressing that specified an inaugural should beryllium supported by sustainable backing and wide accountability frameworks.

He said, “The researchers should beryllium tasked with processing healthcare solutions that gully connected indigenous cognition systems, peculiarly Nigeria’s affluent ethnopharmacological heritage, to nutrient treatments that are culturally applicable and economically viable.”

The prof urged the promotion of transdiscipl...