UNIMED secures $45,000 Simons Foundation grant for autism research capacity building in Africa

From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
The University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, has secured a US$45,000 grant from the Simons Foundation to strengthen autism research capacity and foster scientific collaboration across Africa.
The grant, awarded over a three-year period, will support the Simons Academy for Neuroscience of Autism in Africa (SANAA), an intensive one- to two-week training programme designed to advance experimental and translational autism research through capacity building, mentorship and scientific collaboration.
SANAA is being led by the Laboratory for Experimental and Translational Neurobiology (LETNeu) at UNIMED, in collaboration with the Cognitive Neurophysiol...