United States Embassy in Nigeria has commended Nigerian Associate Professor of Medicine, Dr Onyema Ogbuagbu, for helping to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.
Development Diaries understands that Dr Ogbuagbu, an infectious disease specialist at Yale School of Medicine, helped drug company, Pfizer develop the first effective Covid-19 vaccine in the United States.
‘Nigerians contribute to the world in so many ways’, the U.S. Embassy said in a Facebook post.
‘Our hats off to Dr Onyema Ogbuagbu at Yale who helped develop a Covid-19 vaccine’.
The pharmaceutical giants, Pfizer, and BioNtech had announced that the first vaccine they developed against Covid-19 could prevent more than 90 percent of people from getting infected.
The vaccine has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries and no safety concerns have been raised.
During his interview with ABC News, Dr Ogbuagbu said the research team was excited by the results as it was ‘unexpected’.
Dr Ogbuagbu graduated with a degree in Medicine from the University of Calabar in 2003 and later moved to the U.S. before rising to become Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease Specialist at Yale University.
Source: United Sates Embassy in Nigeria
Photo source: United States Embassy in Nigeria
