In recognition of its leading role in research and capacity building in Africa, the University of Benin has been awarded a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) research grant of about 5.7 million naira to conduct research in antimalarial drug discovery from local plants and herbal resources. The award represents a part of the larger Africa-U.S. Higher Education Partnership program of USAID that is administered by Higher Education for Development (HED), a division of the American Council on Education.
This award puts UNIBEN in partnership with The University of Mississippi, affectionately known as “Ole-Miss” and a leading United States research university founded in 1848. The partnership project will also engage two other West African higher education and research institutions; the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Burkina Faso, and the Federal University of Technology (FUT-Minna) in Minna, Nigeria.
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