Building sustainable neuroscience capacity in Africa: The role of non-profit organisations

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-9

  Karikari, Thomas K ^a,b   Cobham, Ansa E ^c   Ndams, Iliya S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^d AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Higher education; Neuroscience; Non profit organization; Research funding; Scientific capacity

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROSCIENCE; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; SCIENTIST; ANIMAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 84930606940     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-015-9687-8     Document Type: Article

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