{"id":11582,"date":"2021-11-10T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:01:50","slug":"botswana-graduates-first-ph-d-scientist-in-collaboration-with-baylor-college-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/botswana-graduates-first-ph-d-scientist-in-collaboration-with-baylor-college-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana graduates first Ph.D. scientist in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Botswana graduates first Ph.D. scientist in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine<\/h3>\n
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The University of Botswana graduated its first Ph.D. scientist from the Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) on Monday, Nov. 1, in Gaborone, Botswana.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The University of Botswana graduated its first Ph.D. scientist from\u00a0the Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) on Monday, Nov. 1, in Gaborone, Botswana. This achievement speaks directly to the\u00a0recently renewed agreement<\/a>\u00a0between Baylor College of Medicine and University of Botswana and the institutions\u2019 mutual desire to build scientist-leader capacity.<\/p>\n

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The mission of the CAfGEN study, part of the\u00a0H3Africa\u00a0Consortium, is to create a collaborative, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, inter- and intra-country network of scientists, clinicians and researchers who use genomic approaches to study gene-pathogen interactions in HIV\/AIDS, its co-morbidities and other diseases among diverse pediatric African populations. Started in 2014, CAfGEN has accomplished most of its aims in the first phase of funding and now is on the second phase of the project. CAfGEN is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and has built genomic sequencing systems and provided support for the bioinformatic centers in Botswana and Uganda.<\/p>\n

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CAfGEN is the first research collaboration between Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence, University of Botswana, Baylor College of Medicine Children\u2019s Foundation \u2013 Eswatini, Makerere University, Baylor College of Medicine Children\u2019s Foundation \u2013 Uganda and\u00a0Baylor College of Medicine. A total of 11 Ph.D. students, five of them in Botswana, and two MSc students will be trained through this project. They spend two years of training at Baylor College of Medicine and then complete the rest of their work at their home institution.<\/p>\n

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Gaone Retshabile is the first of the Botswana trainee cohort who graduates with a Ph.D. in biological sciences at the University of Botswana. His thesis is based on his\u00a0published research<\/a>\u00a0on the uncaptured genetic variation in the population of Botswana. \u201cWe congratulate Dr. Retshabile and recognize the tremendous support he got from his mentors, supervisors and fellow trainees,\u201d said Dr. Mogomotsi Matshaba, executive director of Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence. \u201cThis effort was made possible by generous funding from the National Institutes of Health.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This work is supported by the NIH, Office of the Director, the Office of AIDS Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the National Human Genome Research Institute, grant number U54AI110398.<\/p>\n

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