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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST): The University of Science and Technology was officially inaugurated on Wednesday 20th November 1961. The vision of KNUST is to be globally recognised as the premier centre of excellence in Africa for teaching in Science and Technology for development; producing high calibre graduates with knowledge and expertise to support the industrial and socio-economic development of Ghana and Africa. KNUST will also provide service to the community, be open to all the people of Ghana and positioned to attract scholars, industrialists and entrepreneurs from Africa and other international communities.

The School of Medicine (SMS) was established in 1975 with a mission to become a centre of excellence in medical education and practice offering undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes of exceptionally high quality and standard. The School is a partner in a number of collaborative malaria related research projects funded by WHO, the Wellcome Trust, Gates Malaria Partnership, DFID - Research Programme Consortium in Communicable Diseases and NIH. These cover a wide area of malaria research including studies on genetic resistance to malaria, trials of uncomplicated and severe malaria, chemoprevention of malaria, prevention of malaria in pregnancy and a trial of the promising malaria vaccine.

PI - Harry Tagbor