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GRANT CATEGORY NAME
DEPARTMENT
SEED FUNDING
Mr. Francis Codjoe
Medical Laboratory Sciences, SAHS
Ms. Grace L. Allotey-Babington
School of Pharmacy
LARGE MULTI-
DISCIPLINARY
Dr. Henry Nettey
School of Pharmacy
Prof. Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Geography and Resource Development
INVESTIGATOR-LED
GRANTS
Dr. Gladys Nyarko Ansah
English
Dr. Jemima Asabea Anderson
English
Prof. Helen Yitah
English
Prof. Nana Aba Amfo
Linguistics
Dr. Joshua Alfred Amuah
Music
Dr. Mercy Akrofi-Ansah
Institute of African Studies
Dr. Peter Atudiwe Atupare
Law
Dr. Patrick Amoateng
School of Pharmacy
Dr. Kwadwo Asamoah-Kusi
Immunology, NMIMR
Dr. William Kudzi
CTCPT, UG Medical School
Mrs. Freda Dzifa Intiful
Dietetics, SAHS
Dr. George Awuku Asare
Medical Laboratory Sciences
Dr. Angela Ofori-Atta
Psychiatry, UGMS
Dr. Kingsley Badu
Immunology, NMIMR
Dr. Amos Laar
School of Public Health
Dr. Esi Colecraft
Nutrition and Food Science
Dr. Lydia Mosi
Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology
Dr. Edward Onumah
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Dr. Henry Mensah-Brown
Food Process Engineering
Mr. Balapangu S. Srinivasan
Biomedical Engineering
Please see the ORID website at
for details on the award winners and the grants.
Addressing National Development Needs Through
UG Funded Research
Professor Kwame
Afreh-Nuamah received
a research grant of
GH¢24,500 from the UG
Research Fund in 2009
to implement the project
titled “Development of
Sustainable and Integrated
Management Strategy
against fruit safety and
environmental protection in citrus plantations in Ghana”. The
study which was carried out on the citrus plantation at the
Forest and Horticultural Crops Research Centre (FOHREC) at
Kade in the Eastern Region between 2009 and 2011 was to
determine species composition, population dynamics and
management of fruit flies with red ant and neem insecticides
in order to develop an integrated management of fruit flies in
citrus plantations.
At the close of the project in 2011, additional funding of
about GH¢1,083,932 had been leveraged from eight (8) other
donors.
One outcome of the project has been the establishment
of the National Fruit Fly Management Committee which is
charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the menace
of the fruit fly problem in Ghana is contained. Among the
objectives of the Committee is to coordinate all activities
involved in the fruit fly to ensure harmonisation of available
interventions to farmers. The Committee is also expected to
play an advocacy role for the containment of the fruit fly.
Prof. Kwame Afreh-Nuamah
