The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has established a central laboratory to function as a shared facility for use in both basic and applied science research.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”dUEnphSuqZBA15dBifnH7ZlCsM8HjSMT”]The six million euro facility would provide research scientists, government and research agencies, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agro-chemical and chemical industries in Ghana and abroad access to a state-of-the-art equipment.<\/p>\n
The laboratory was built by the university with internally generated funds.<\/p>\n
Champion Divine Clinic, a Kumasi-based herbal hospital and pharmaceutical company, contributed 25 per cent of the GH\u00a21.250 million that was used to construct the structure housing the equipment.<\/p>\n
Mr Mahama Ayariga, the Minister of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation (MESTI), applauded KNUST for the project.<\/p>\n
He said it would not only promote efficient use of resources but also enhance collaboration and interaction of ideas among researchers.<\/p>\n
He suggested the establishment of central laboratories in all the regional capitals, to facilitate collaborative research in the regions and districts.<\/p>\n
Mr Ayariga underlined the need for research institutions to develop local technologies to replace the foreign ones and reduce the importation of technologies.<\/p>\n
Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, Minister of Education, in an address read on her behalf, said the proposed establishment of the central research fund was to help support such initiatives.<\/p>\n
She appealed to research scientists to support the government to speed up the passage of a bill for the process and support research activities.<\/p>\n
Prof William Otu Ellis, Vice Chancellor of KNUST, said the motive was to establish a facility comparable to any research and teaching facility that could be found in any part of the world.<\/p>\n
He called on the regulatory bodies, business organisations and other research institutions to take advantage of the facilities at the laboratory to improve performance.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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