Sofonias Tessema Awarded African Career Accelerator Award Fellowship

We are proud to announce that Sofonias Tessema, PhD has been awarded the African Career Accelerator Award Fellowship--designed to help postdoctoral research scientists become research group leaders on the African continent.

As one of seven new fellows awarded by the Crick African Network, Sofonias hopes to develop and apply next-generation sequencing based malaria surveillance method that mitigate the limitations of traditional approaches in Ethiopia. He aims to create tools to provide detailed and comprehensive information on the genetic profiles of malaria parasites in Ethiopia.

"The culture of research excellence and the diverse networks of researchers with state-of-the-art platforms at the Francis Crick Institute is extremely attractive for an early career researcher like me." 

Sofonias Tessema, PhD

 

Read more about the fellowship here