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A female student of the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Sandra Musujusu,
has developed an alternative treatment for b reast cancer. The
scientific breakthrough might lead to a lasting solution in the
treatment of b reast cancer prevalent among women world over.
This
was made known on Tuesday in Abuja when the World Bank Education
Director, Dr Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi, with his team visited the
University as part of his assessment tour of the 10 African Centres of
Excellence (ACE) centres.
The
World Bank has committed about $10 billion for the ACE project in
Nigeria, as part of efforts to encourage conduct of cutting-edge
research and specialisation of the beneficiaries institutions in
specific development problems faced in Nigeria and indeed the African
continent.
Musujusu’s
research, using macromolecular science is aimed at developing
bio-degradable polymer material which could be used as alternative for
the treatment of b reast cancer in the near future.
She
revealed that her research focuses on triple negative b reast cancer
which is the aggressive sub-type of b reast cancer that is common with
women from African ancestry.
Musujusu,
a Sierra-Leonian national, is conducting the research under the
sponsorship of the Pan African Materials Institute (PAMI). Musujusu
said, “My research is actually centred on the development of
bio-degradable polymers for treatment of b reast cancer.
I
will be focusing on triple negative b reast cancer which is actually
the aggressive sub-type of b reast cancer that is common with women from
African ancestry.”
I
believe there is a bright future for Africa, and as a woman there is
much more we can do if we are empowered. This award given to me by PAMI
has empowered me to face my studies with more confidence and actually
contribute to the frontier of knowledge and move Africa forward.”
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