Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MBB), University of Cape Coast, is pleased to invite students, staff, alumni, and the wider university community to another edition of its “Time with the Experts” Seminar Series. 

This seminar will feature Dr. Dina Danso-Abeam, a distinguished alumna of the Department and a Senior Verification and Validation Scientist at Becton Dickinson (BD) Research Centre, Ireland.

Dr. Danso-Abeam will share her professional journey and valuable insights in a presentation titled:

This presentation will highlight the growing movement to use crop genome editing to benefit smallholder farmers to enhance food security in the Global South. While the technology holds significant promise, with dozens of projects already underway and the first gene-edited crops being approved for market in India and Philippines, its real-life impact on African smallholders remains uncertain and largely unrealized.

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