NIMR and the Battle to Control COVID-19 in Nigeria
In March 2020, NIMR in collaboration with Life Bank and other partners/sponsors established the Nigeria’s first modified drive-and-walk-through COVID-19 testing Centre. The institute also partnered with Mobihealth to launch a Do-It-Yourself swab sampling process to raise awareness and increase the number of COVID-19 tests per day. Throughout the year 2020, NIMR was involved in providing […]
Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Speech at the Launching of Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Foundation
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, is currently not playing a leading role in the story of the COVID-19 research and development of vaccines as she should, given the immense potential it possesses. This is as a result of the lack of support for healthcare research and the years of underfunding healthcare in general and medical research […]
WHY INVEST IN MEDICAL RESEARCH?
Medical care has improved over the years with some life-threatening diseases and conditions now being history.