Dr.Sulaiman Sadi an indigene of Kano, has become the 1st Nigerian to receive the UK’s Welcome Trust award to a tune of £969,680 (more than half a billion Naira)
He is the 1st Nigerian to receive such an award for his work in creating a comprehensive molecular biology laboratory.
His current research aims to understand how malaria-transmitting mosquitoes adapt to the rising temperatures due to global warming (climate change); “the genetic mechanisms they use for such adaptations, and how the mechanisms can be targeted for the control of the mosquitoes.