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      Virtual Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium: Networks for a post-Covid era

      What role will science play as a catalyser for progress in the post-Covid-19 era? What research topics will drive our work? These are the questions that will be examined by top researchers from the African network at the Humboldt Foundation’s Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium being held on 30 and 31 March 2022. Here, we present four outstanding individuals and their work.

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    • Till Winfried Bärnighausen

      general medical practitioner. He continued his training at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the University of London and Harvard School of Public Health. In 2004, he moved to the University

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      Till Winfried Bärnighausen
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      The Fight against Obesity and Diabetes

      The number of overweight people in the world is increasing rapidly. Matthias Tschöp is searching for a drug to curb our voracious appetite and improve our metabolism.

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      The Fight against Obesity and Diabetes
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      Support for science

      The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a legally responsible foundation under private law and promotes excellent research worldwide. The Foundation chiefly finances its expenditure on the basis of grants from the Federal Government and the European Union. However, the Foundation’s funding is also secured by private endowments. Mr. Winfried Pohl's endowment of €500,000 will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl, an expert in the field of thermal engineering, tells us what motivated him to support the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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