Royal Society Africa Prize

Recipients

• 2006 Alexis Nzila
• 2007 Hiba Mohamed, for her pioneering research into genetic susceptibility to leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by sand fly bites
• 2008 Enock Matovu
• 2009 Linda-Gail Bekker, director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, for her outstanding research into tuberculosis and HIV co-infections in Africa
• 2010 Collins Ouma of Maseno University, for his outstanding research into the effect of genetic variation in severe malarial anaemia in children.
• 2011 Julie Makani of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and Muhimbili University, Tanzania, for her outstanding research into using anaemia in sickle cell disease as a model for translating genetic research into health benefits
• 2012 Martin Ota, for his outstanding research into the relationship of pneumococcal protein antibody levels to nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci in early infancy.
• 2013 Abdoulaye Diabate, for his important work on the identification of mosquito swarming cues
• 2014 Faith Osier, for her research on understanding the mechanisms of immunity to malaria infection in man
• 2015 Gordon A Awandare, for his achievements in molecular and cellular studies of malaria, including how malaria parasites invade red blood cells and cause disease and Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, for his seminal work on viral haemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola, generating the foundation of our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and control of outbreaks of these viral infections.
• 2016 Amina Abubakar, for her pioneering psychological research in East Africa and her work developing neurodevelopmental assessments.

• 2017 Allasane Dicko for his contribution to research into malaria control
• 2018 Dorothy Yeboah-Manu or her contributions and innovative approaches to understanding Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium africanum
• 2019 Henry Mwandumba for his novel work in description of the TB phagosome in HIV infected alveolar macrophages and his leadership in the College of Medicine in Malawi