Updates

The Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (BioRTC) welcomed approximately 80 students and three lecturers from Sa’adu Zungur University, Gadau, for a structured scientific learning visit designed to provide first-hand exposure to modern biomedical research, advanced scientific infrastructure and laboratory practice. Rather than a conventional facility tour, the programme was designed as an immersive introduction to the research environment. Students

The Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (BioRTC) has expanded the scientific capabilities of the SAHEL Study, its large-scale study of ageing and dementia in Northern Nigeria, with the installation of a Topcon Maestro2 optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal imaging system. The new platform will enable researchers to acquire detailed, non-invasive images of the retina and investigate relationships between retinal

Three researchers from the Maina Lab at BioRTC — Mukhtar Lawan, Medina Sani and Mubarak Ismaila — are currently at the University of York, United Kingdom, undertaking specialised training in advanced biomedical imaging through Imaging 4 All (i4all) Access Grants. Mukhtar and Medina are participating in an intensive Advanced Confocal Microscopy Workshop, developing hands-on expertise in image acquisition, optimisation and

BioRTC is proud to celebrate Dr Rashidatu Abdulazeez, one of our Principal Investigators, who is part of the team presenting an exhibit at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026 in London. The exhibit, “The Viral Stories Written in Our DNA,” invites visitors to discover how ancient viruses have left lasting signatures within animal genomes and how these viral

Two researchers from the Maina Lab at the Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (BioRTC), Dawoud Usman and Idris Audu Ibrahim, are currently undertaking advanced hands-on training in sequencing technologies at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Accra. The training is supported through Professor Mahmoud Bukar Maina’s Wellcome Trust Career Development Award,

The Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (BioRTC), Yobe State University, is pleased to announce the 2026 Computational Neuroscience Summer School, scheduled to take place from 12–26 June 2026 at the BioRTC Complex in Damaturu, Nigeria. Held under the theme “Building a Computational Neuroscience Hub in West Africa,” the school forms part of BioRTC’s long-standing commitment to developing the next