Professor Bose Afolabi Finally Wins $2.5 Million Bill Gates Grant

The don seeks to research anaemia among pregnant women with her project titled “Intravenous Versus Oral Iron for Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Pregnant Nigerian Women (IVON): a randomised controlled trial.”
By Yusuf Akinpelu. A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Lagos, Bose Afolabi, has been awarded a $2.5 million research grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The university stated in a assertion that as the essential investigator, Ms Afolabi will lead a multicentre have a look at so that it will run the research for 3 years (November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2023).

The don seeks to analyze anaemia among pregnant girls with her undertaking titled “Intravenous Versus Oral Iron for Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Pregnant Nigerian Women (IVON): a randomised controlled trial.”

“The take a look at will be performed in 10 hospitals inside Lagos and Kano States and it will recruit a complete of 1,056 ladies at 20-32 weeks gestational age, who are recognized as having anaemia at the antenatal clinics of the hospitals,” UNILAG cited.

“In addition to the worldwide collaborations and partnerships which the study will facilitate between UNILAG and other universities inside the US and Europe, it will also make a contribution to nearby human potential improvement with the sponsorship of junior faculty for postgraduate training,” the announcement brought.

Reputed for her studies and lectures on sickle cell being pregnant, Ms Afolabi has an interest in maternal and fetal medication, minimal get admission to (laparoscopic) surgical operation and scientific education.

She is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists UK, West African College of Surgeons, and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, in keeping with her biography reeled out via the University of Lagos in its statement.