Third Ghana Biomedical Convention

Venue: Noguchi, University of Ghana

11th - 13 August 2010

To help link global technological advances to the opportunities and expertise in Ghana
To bring together representatives of health care delivery funding initiatives and the Ghanaian biomedical science community
To foster collaborations among Ghanaian biomedical Scientists both home and abroad for national benefit
To serve as a forum for spawning ideas for postgraduate research projects and to make Ghanaian foreign biomedical scientists accessible to postgraduate students to create supervisorial and mentoring relationships
To serve as a forum for identifying and discussing the national priorities in order to maximize the benefits of the worldwide biomedical revolution within the Ghanaian context
To bring together representatives of the global Drug R&D community and local researchers with first-line access to relevant unexplored pharmacognostic data

The limited presence of current developments in contemporary Ghanaian biomedical research discourse
The untapped local Ghanaian natural drug knowledge repository
The untapped Diasporan-Ghanaian biomedical resource

To bring Ghanaian biomedical scientists, both home and abroad, together to know themselves, present ongoing research, share experiences and create relationships
To identify potential synergies and areas of collaboration between participants
To provide a forum for discussion of current advances in knowledge in the bio-medical sciences and identify areas of national benefit

Proud Sponsors of Ghana Biomed 2010