UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) has awarded the HIV Research Trust Award to Waheed Adeola Adedeji, a physician scientist at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

The award supports six months of clinical pharmacology and drug development training at the CIGBS, an international hub that brings together faculty from research, clinical and applied programs to tackle the world’s most pressing health issues.

The HIV Research Trust is a charitable foundation that provides financial support to physicians, nurses, scientists and other health care professionals who are early or mid-career, located in low-income or lower-middle-income countries, and work in the field of HIV infection.

With UB faculty members who work in fields ranging from pharmacology and medicine to engineering and chemistry, the CIGBS uses education and research to promote drug discovery, advance nanotechnology applications and develop sustainable business models for products and services for the global health market.

In addition to HIV research, the center partners with universities around the world to study viral infections such as the Chikungunya and Zika viruses, and viral hepatitis.

For more information, visit the CIGBS website.