The apex regulatory body for the practice of the Science profession in the country, the Nigerian Academy of Science has set 12th May 2022 aside in Abuja as the day for the induction of new fellows among who is Professor Christian Happi, Director of the globally celebrated Redeemer’s University African Centre of Excellence of Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Ede, Osun State.
The induction of Professor Happi is coming a few months after his centre received the 2021 NAS Gold Medal award for outstanding contribution to the development of Science, most especially in the field of Public Health.
The ACEGID’s boss was announced as an elected Foreign Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Science on March 11, 2022, which made him the third foreign scholar ever elected to the Nigerian Academy of Sciences. One of the other Foreign Fellows previously elected was a Nobel Prize laureate.