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An inspiring Monday! This morning, Chanjo Hub Director Prof. Faith Osier had the honour of meeting His Excellency, the Prime Minister of Lesotho, at Liselo Labs and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Together, we are pioneering #VaccineManufacturing in Africa. A big thank you to Imperial College London, Wellcome Trust and UK Research and Innovation for their support.

Professor Faith Osier is Chair of Immunology and Vaccinology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial, as well as co-director of the Institute of Infection. Her research team's vision is to “Make Malaria History” through vaccination. Faith has won multiple international awards such as the Royal Society Pfizer, the Sofja Kovalevskaja, and the UKRI African Research Leader. She was awarded the prestigious British Society for Immunology Lifetime Honorary Membership Award. She says: “I am thrilled to join the Academy of Medical Sciences and look forward to working with like-minded colleagues to promote equity in Global Health. The burden of malaria remains exceptionally high and our efforts to develop effective vaccines are more important than ever.” Read full article here