Dr. John Saviour Yaw Eleblu
PhD, Molecular Genetics, Paris Sud
Coordinator Research, Francophone Africa, WACCI
Lecturer, Biotechnology centre
University of Ghana
Profile Grant Funded Research Research and Teaching Publication
Grants
- 2019-2020: GB£ 20,000 Cambridge-Africa and WACCI’s Collaboration on “Upscaling Cowpea Improvement for food security in Ghana”. (Lead Local Investigator/Project Collaborator)GB£ 20,000: Cambridge-Africa and WACCI’s Collaboration on “Upscaling Cowpea Improvement for food security in Ghana”. (Lead Local Investigator/Project Collaborator)
- 2018-2021: US$ 1,000,000 African Union (AU) Funded project on “Crop and Soil Health Improvement for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Towards Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Co-Principal Investigator)
- 2018-2019: US$ 20,000 Soybean Improvement Initiative for Increased Productivity at WACCI in Partnership with University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA. (Project Collaborator)
- 2018-2019: US$ 20,000 Soybean Improvement Initiative for Increased Productivity in Ghana. (Principal Investigator)
- 2018-2019: GB£ 20,000 Cambridge-Africa and WACCI’s Collaboration on “Establishment of Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation for Scalable Cowpea Improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa”. (Lead Local Investigator/Project Collaborator)
- 2014-2017: US$ 11,500,000 AGRA funding for the establishment of the WACCI (Coordinator)
- 2014-2018: US$ 8,000,000 World Bank Project on developing WACCI into an African Centre of Excellence (ACE) for training plant breeders, seed scientists and seed technologists (Coordinator)
- 2010 US$ 90,000 WACCI-Biotech Summer School funded by the VW Foundation (Resource Person)
- 2009-2012: US$ 48,000 IAEA funded Project on the Nutritional Improvement of Sorghum bicolor in Ghana (Graduate Research Assistant)