Dzodze-Penyi Road
Penyi, Ghana
+233 24 944 0222
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An institution built for the next century of African biotechnology scientists.
The Sena Institute of Technology is building Africa’s first biotechnology-first university a tightly-woven ecosystem of laboratories, classrooms, and startup studios where students don’t just earn a degree, they leave with research, products, and companies.
Innovation first
Every program embeds product development, translational research, and venture creation. Students graduate with portfolios, not just transcripts.
Biotechnology leadership
Genomics, drug discovery, agro-biotech, and the bio-economy built into a single ecosystem instead of scattered across departments.
Hands-on by design
Real labs, real fields, real industry rotations from year one. We measure success in skills practiced, not lectures attended.
Globally relevant
Curriculum co-developed with Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, and more anchored in problems that matter to West Africa.
Entrepreneurship embedded
Students graduate having co-founded a venture, filed a patent, or launched a product. The startup studio is part of the curriculum.
Built for Ghana, ready for the world
Tuition, scholarships, and faculty pipelines designed for African students outcomes designed to compete on any continent.
From a missing institution to a deliberate one.
Across West Africa, a generation of scientists is being trained but few are being equipped to translate their work into products, companies, or policy. The pipeline from the lecture hall to the lab bench, and from the bench to the market, is fractured.
The Sena Institute of Technology was conceived to repair that pipeline. We are designing a single institution where the boundary between coursework, research, and venture creation is intentionally porous where students rotate between classroom, laboratory, and startup studio in the same week.
SIT is rooted in Ghana, but the standards are global. Our curriculum is co-developed with leading universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, and our research agenda is shaped by problems that matter on the continent: genomic medicine, agro-biotechnology, drug discovery from natural products, and the bio-economy.
Community Outreach
CORE Programs
RESEARCH
We connect students and junior faculty to senior colleagues for both professional and academic mentoring.
WORKFORCE
We place students in international labs for short-term experience while providing an environment for collaborative research in Ghana.
Workshops
Our team provides training to students in molecular biology, agriculture, botany, imaging and data analysis,
Our successes
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Ongoing Projects
Student and Interns Feedback
Interning at Sena Institute of Technology (SIT) over the summer break was a remarkably enriching international experience. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, my internship was conducted remotely where I worked on the Sub-Saharan African Genome Repository; data science research using the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) tools such as Pubmed and Primer BLAST to mine published literature.
Cherish Jongwe,
Summer Intern 21 Harvard College, USA.
Contact Us
- +233 24 944 0222
- Penyi, Ghana
- info@sitghana.org