The KT Jeang retrovirology prize 2023: Thumbi Ndung’u
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Thumbi Ndung’u grew up on a coffee farm in rural Kenya, where he received his primary and high school education at Gathugu Primary School and Nyeri High School. He studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nairobi and graduated in 1991, later joining the laboratory led by George Kinoti and Jasper Mumo at the same institute, to work on Schistosoma haematobium vaccine research. The project provided an opportunity for Ndung’u to travel to the laboratory of Donald Harn at the Harvard School of Public Health to train on hybridoma technology for making monoclonal antibodies. Besides the cultural shock of working overseas for the first time, this exciting six-month stint at Harvard was an eye-opener to cutting-edge biomedical research. Ndung’u subsequently returned to Nairobi where he worked to set up the infrastructure to produce monoclonal antibodies to Schistosoma haematobium egg antigens.
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