Buffalo News: UB-Zimbabwe partnership elevates pharmacology, biomedicine in Africa

Gene Morse.

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By Janet Gramza

UB-Zimbabwe partnership elevates pharmacology, biomedicine in Africa

The medical research partnership between the University at Buffalo and the University of Zimbabwe started in 1998 as a research project to study how HIV medicines developed in the U.S. and Europe could be used to fight the raging AIDS epidemic in Africa.

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Today, 24 years and several federal grants later, the partnership is helping the University of Zimbabwe build the Health Galaxy Park, a “twin” of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus that will be a biomedical research and health care hub for Southeast Africa, said Gene Morse, a UB professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences and director of UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences.

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