DrChika

Chika Ejikeugwu (PhD, 2017, UNIZIK, Nigeria) is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Stiftung in Germany. Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu is currently a Research Fellow at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, where he is working on "the soilRESIST project to investigate the effects of antibiotic mixtures on soil microbiomes." He founded Africa's Number 1 Microbiology website, www.MicrobiologyClass.net. Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu was a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany (2021) and a MIF Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (2018). In 2021, he was awarded the Young Investigator Award on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) by Institute Mérieux in France. Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu is a member of the Global Young Academy in Germany, and a member of other professional (microbiology) societies including Applied Microbiology International (AMI), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Nigerian Society for Microbiology (NSM) and American Society for Microbiology (ASM). He holds a doctorate degree in Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology. Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu is a Senior Lecturer & Researcher at Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT), Nigeria where he mentors undergraduate and postgraduate students on microbiology & other aspects of life. He has a flair for teaching, research and community service.

GENE THERAPY

Gene therapy is defined as the specific genetic manipulation and modification of an organism’s genome or genes through the delivery of therapeutic DNA or genes into host cells with little or no toxicity as a way of treating an inherited genetic disease or correcting a disorderly gene. Gene therapy techniques are basically used to correct […]

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Austrian Development Cooperation Scholarship for Developing Countries 2025/26

Every year the Austrian Development Cooperation offers students from developing countries scholarships to help with tuition fees and general expenses. The Austrian Development Cooperation offers scholarships: Scholarships are awarded for the Diploma Course of the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management. The Diploma Course includes:1.) A General Module2.) A Professional Module: Hospitality Management or Tourism Management3.)

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NITROGENOUS BASES – Purine and Pyrimidines

Genes in the DNA code for proteins; and it is the gene that directs the cell in what particular order to assemble the amino acids which eventually becomes the building blocks of protein molecules. The cell of an organism must use one nucleotide or more in the DNA to spell out or specify each of

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Africa Scholarship Programme 4 MASTERS (M.Sc.) in Wageningen University, Netherlands

The Africa Scholarship Programme (ASP) offers talented and motivated students from Africa the unique opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree at Wageningen University and to support capacity building in Africa. Available scholarships: to be determined Application deadline for MSc programme: 1 February 2025 Start MSc programme: 1 September 2025 Components of the scholarship: Requirements 1. You are a

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry – Wageningen University Netherlands

Your job We have a vacancy for an assistant professor or associate professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry, to strengthen the chair group Organic Chemistry in the cluster Biomolecular Sciences of the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences at Wageningen University. The position includes both teaching and research responsibilities. Due to the current gender balance, we strongly

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PhD position – Environmental and welfare impacts of vaccination to control avian influenza – Wageningen University Netherlands

Your job The present PhD student position and associated research project is part of the 13 PhD projects of the VIVACE Doctoral Network, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie action of the Horizon Europe programme. Context on the VIVACE doctoral NetworkWhile outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) in Europe used to be rare and

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Fully-funded PhD positions in Biomedical Sciences at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association is an international biomedical research center dedicated to understanding the molecular mechanisms of health and disease with the goal to devise new diagnostics and medicines. The MDC is a member of the Helmholtz Association, Germany’s largest scientific organization, and offers an engaging research

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Applications for the 2025 JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme are now open.

UNU offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policymakers, especially from the developing world, with a multidisciplinary context within which to pursue advanced research and training that are of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected thematic programme. Since the start of the Fellowship

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Writing a manuscript and mastering abstracts: A GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

How you structure your article can affect how much it gets read—and cited. Each section serves a purpose, and does so in a particular order. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the overall structure that you should follow in your article. And then we’ll focus specifically on the abstract—one of the most important

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