2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Pan Africa Chemistry Network (PACN). ‘We wanted to bring together a community across the continent, internationally, to give Africa a push in the right direction to ultimately becoming a self-sustaining science community,’ explains the PACN programme manager Helen Driver. ‘We’re trying to put ourselves out of a job!’
Dr Imran Janmohamed spoke to us about his experiences travelling to Nigeria to facilitate a GC-MS training course with the Pan Africa Chemistry Network.
We are once again partnering with the Royal Society to offer grants of up to £12,000 as part of the International Exchanges Award, which funds collaborations between researchers in the UK and Africa.
A partnership between universities, businesses, charities – and our own Pan Africa Chemistry Network – is building analytical science capacity in African universities, through a combination of training courses and donated equipment.
Dr Imran Janmohamed spoke to us about his experiences travelling to Nigeria to facilitate a GC-MS training course with the Pan Africa Chemistry Network.
We are once again partnering with the Royal Society to offer grants of up to £12,000 as part of the International Exchanges Award, which funds collaborations between researchers in the UK and Africa.
A partnership between universities, businesses, charities – and our own Pan Africa Chemistry Network – is building analytical science capacity in African universities, through a combination of training courses and donated equipment.
The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Pan Africa Chemistry Network Congress, sponsored by Agilent Technologies and Syngenta, was held in Accra, Ghana, in November 2017.
Celebrating the diversity of the chemical sciences, we profile three researchers from different academic backgrounds, all working to bring clean water to African communities.
175 minutes for chemistry - Our Chemists’ Community Fund, the working name for the Benevolent Fund, makes a difference to the lives of our members and their families when facing financial hardship and other difficult circumstances.
Zoe Zeliku first went to Ethiopia in 2010, as a GSK volunteer working at the Centre for National Health Development in Addis Ababa. Now she is returning, to share her expertise and enthusiasm for analytical chemistry.
Fifteen analytical chemists from across Africa are now proficient in both the practical and theoretical aspects of GC-MS, thanks to a week-long workshop in Ethiopia at the start of October.
In the final week of November, analytical chemists from across Nigeria, as well as Cameroon and Sudan, gathered at the University of Lagos for the final one of our four GC-MS training workshops that have taken place across sub-Saharan Africa this year.