The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National Research Fund (NRF) has awarded a 34 million naira grant for Prostate cancer treatment to the Yaba College of Technology research team.
The grant is to enable the researchers to develop an artificial intelligence-based precision medicine solution for prostate cancer treatment with a solution that has the potential to significantly improve outcomes for patients in Nigeria and the world at large.
The grant is meant to develop a technique that uses AI to predict optimal drug combinations for individual prostate cancer patients based on analyses of biopsy tissue samples.
Experts in Computer Engineering, Medical Biochemistry, Oncology, Pathology, Zoology, Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacy, Toxicology and Pharmacology are partnering with the college researchers and will have access to biopsy samples from consenting prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, which has one of the highest prostate cancer rates in the world.
The researchers are led by the Principal Investigator, Mrs. Amolegbe Oluwatosin Aishat, of the Department of Biological Science, YABATECH and co-researchers are from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and the University of Lagos.
The Rector of YABATECH, Dr. Ibraheem Abdul, in his excitement pledged the college’s total support to the team on the innovative work to the desired end.
According to him, “We are excited to support Mrs. Amolegbe and her team in this innovative work.”
He also congratulated the team; Mrs. Oluwatosin Amolegbe, Dr. Mustapha Imam, Dr. Funmilayo Doherty, Dr. Ibrahim Malami, Dr. Idowu Aneyo, Engr. Adebayo Adebari and Dr. Waidi Abiodun Ashiru on the well-deserved grant.
SOURCE: Daily Sun
