Bolanle Otegbayo, a Nigerian national, AWARD Fellow, and later AWARD Mentor, has won the prestigious ‘Programme for Emerging Agricultural Research Leaders’ (PEARL II) grant, worth USD500,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her project, which proposes to “Develop Indicators for Phenotyping Food Quality Traits in Dioscorea Yam” was one of only 7, from among 500 submissions to reach the primary stage of the competition.
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