Rose Leke

**Rose Gana Fomban Leke**  bụ ọkà mmụta ịba na Cameroon na Emeritus Prọfesọ nke Immunology na Parasitology na Mahadum Yaounde I. Enyere ya onyinye L'Oréal-UNESCO maka ụmụ nwanyị na sayensị na 2024.

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
Mgbe Leke na-etolite ọ na-arịa ọrịa ịba ọtụtụ ugboro, ọ bụ akụkụ dị mma nke ndụ. O bu ụzọ nwee mmasị na ọgwụgwọ n'ihi ọgwụgwọ ọ natara maka abscess akpa ume na Limbe mgbe ọ dị afọ isii. Nne ya agaghị ụlọ akwụkwọ, agbanyeghị nna ya bụ onye nkuzi ụlọ akwụkwọ, ha abụọ gbara ya ume ịchụso ohere agụmakwụkwọ. Ọ gara Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Indiana, US na 1966 maka agụmakwụkwọ mahadum ya, wee gaa Mahadum Illinois na Urbana – Champaign maka nzere nna ya ukwu na ụlọ nyocha David Silverman. Leke gbasoro PhD ya, aha ya bụ Murine plasmodia: ọrịa na-adịghị ala ala, na-egbu egbu na nke na-egbochi onwe ya, na Université de Montréal, Canada na 1975.  

## Nnyocha
Nnyocha Prọfesọ Leke lekwasịrị anya na Ịba metụtara ime ime, nke ọbụna ụmụ nwanyị ndị mepụtara usoro mgbochi megide ụdị ịba kachasị njọ nwere ike ịdabere na ụdị ọrịa ahụ na-eyi ndụ egwu, na-emetụta ahụike nwa ahụ. O guzobere mmekọrịta ogologo oge na Diana Taylor na Mahadum Hawaii na Manoa iji nyochaa ọnọdụ a.  Ha abụọ bipụtara nyocha na 2018 nke gosipụtara na mmụba nke nje n'oge ime ime na-emetụta ịba n'ezie nyere nchebe ka mma n'ime nwa ọhụrụ maka ọrịa ịba n"ọdịnihu, ma tụọ aro na ọrịa na-emetụ n'ime ime nwere ike ime ka nwatakịrị nwee ike ibute ọrịa.

## Onyinye na mmata

* Leke has been a senior member of many organisations in the fields of immunology and malaria.
* She received the UNESCO-L’Oréal Award for Women in Science in 2024.
* Leke established the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria.
* She served as president of the Federation of African Immunological Societies from 1997 to 2001, and as a council member of the International Union of Immunological Societies from 1998 to 2004.
* In 2002, a presidential decree appointed Leke as the chair of the Board of Directors of Cameroon's National Medical Research Institute.
* She was awarded the 2011 Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award for Women by the African Union.
* Leke retired from senior university positions in 2013, having been head of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Biotechnology Centre at the University of Yaoundé I.
* She was invited to deliver the 2014 Aggrey‐Fraser‐Guggisberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Ghana and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) degree by the same institution. &#x5B;**&#x5D;
* In 2015, Leke was elected an honorary international fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She also founded the Higher Institute for Growth in Health Research for Women Consortium, aimed at mentoring women scientists in Cameroon.
* In 2018, Leke was honored as a Heroine of Health by Women in Global Health and General Electric Healthcare during the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
* In 2019, she was ceremonially named Queen Mother of the Cameroon Medical Community by the Cameroon Medical Council.
* Leke is a member of the World Health Organization Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Polio Eradication.
* In 2023, she received the Virchow Prize, honoring her pioneering infectious disease research towards a malaria-free world and her dedication to advancing gender equality. The prize is endowed with 500,000 euros and was established by the non-profit Virchow Foundation.
* Her contributions to science were acknowledged in the book *Towards Women Participation in Scientific Research in Africa*.

## Ndụ onwe onye
Leke nwere ọtụtụ ụmụ ụmụ.

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