:Draft:Yaw Bediako

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Yaw Bediako is a Ghanian immunologist who studied at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He founded Yemaachi Biotech, an immunogenomics research company based in Accra, Ghana.{{Cite web |last=Editor |first=AR Managing |date=2024-08-06 |title=August 2024: Dr. Yaw Bediako – African Male Researcher of the Month |url=https://www.africanresearchers.org/august-2024-dr-yaw-bediako-african-male-researcher-of-the-month/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=African Researchers Magazine (ISSN: 2714-2787) - premier source for latest African research, science and scholarly news |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Francis |date=2024-11-11 |title=African biotech: the potential to transform physical and economic health in Africa |url=https://thebftonline.com/2024/11/11/african-biotech-the-potential-to-transform-physical-and-economic-health-in-africa/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=The Business & Financial Times |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Koba |first=Melchior |title=Ghanaian Yaw Bediako fights cancer with technology |url=https://www.wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/tech-stars/ghanaian-yaw-bediako-fights-cancer-with-technology |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.wearetech.africa |language=fr-fr}}{{Cite web |title=The Ghanaian researcher who came home |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/yaw-bediako-biotech-researcher |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.gatesfoundation.org |language=en}}

Education

Bediako obtained his B.sc at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He later obtained his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.{{citation needed|date= April 2025}}

In London, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Francis Crick Institute. He was also a research assistant at the Calvin Institute of Technology in Indonesia and the Van Andel Institute in the United States.

Career

Bediako is a research fellow at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens at the University of Ghana.{{Cite web |title=Yaw Bediako {{!}} The AAS |url=https://www.old.aasciences.africa/affiliate/yaw-bediako |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.old.aasciences.africa}}

Recognition

In 2024, Bediako received the Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship, awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This fellowship recognizes his outstanding contributions to science and his leadership in advancing cancer research in Africa. Bediako was recently selected as an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences. {{Cite web |title=Dr Yaw Bediako {{!}} Cancer Grand Challenges |url=https://www.cancergrandchallenges.org/dr-yaw-bediako |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.cancergrandchallenges.org |language=en}}

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