Nigeria Opens Clinical Trial Center

Announced recently at AllAfrica.com, Nigeria has opened their first clinical trial center at Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lasucom. The center was donated by GlaxoSmithKline.

Professor Clement Adebamowo, Chairman, National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (NHREC) had this to say about the new center:
"We lost our direction because we started to pay more attention to things that are not based on science and to things that are not based on reasoning. Research is a systematic investigation designed to make generalisable knowledge. We need to put in place a programme that guarantees, in a transparent manner, that any research done in Nigeria is credible. We need to invite a lot of research into the country. Research generates employment, new drugs and new discovery. There are many diseases we wish we can find cure for... Research yields exceedingly profitable results."