A Liberian medical researcher, Dougbeh Chris Nyan, has been awarded a lifetime achievement award in science by the US-based Victor E. Ward Education Fund.
Nyan received the accolade for his invention of a diagnostic test for infectious diseases, as well as for his role in facilitating US support during the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
He received the award at a gala in Washington, DC on 29 October, according to the GNN Liberia news service. The fund is named after a Liberian scientist who was gunned down along with two other university professors in 1990 during unrest in the country.
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