Making a Difference in African Science through Continued Learning and Collaboration

In January 2018’s blog post, we announced that this year’s posts will be devoted to showcasing scientific achievements in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, as IFS is determined to be stronger than ever in its support of early-career researchers in these regions. This month we turn to Martin Bienvenu Somda, a two-time IFS grantee, who is a junior lecturer at Nazi Boni University of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. His research aims to address what he sees as one of the pressing issues in agricultural health science: diagnosing problems and researching new vaccines and drugs in the integrated fight against vector-borne diseases. We hope you enjoy this feature of our website.