Mission and Vision
- Improve our economy and alleviate poverty through science and critical thinking.
- Provide an avenue to train the youth on hands-on experiential learning and equip them with skills to address local challenges.
- Develop technologies and research tools that can be commercialized across the continent.
- Provide a community and space for doing science.
Sena Institute of Technology Incorporation
Sena Institute of Technology (SIT) was incorporated in Ghana in May 2016 under the Companies Act 1963, Act 179, as a non-profit research institute to bring seasoned and young researchers across the globe to work together for a common purpose of building research capacity in Africa. The vision of SIT Ghana is to be an outstanding research capacity hub in Ghana and across Africa dedicated to solving African and global challenges. Our sole aim is to pull resources together to create an environment for scientific progression and development in Africa and the world. SIT Ghana will cover all areas of academic discipline and engage faculty and students to facilitate innovative and sustainable development of research in Ghana and across Africa. We have our office at Penyi on the Ho – Aflao main road, in the Ketu North District of the Volta Region, Ghana.
Sena Institute of Technology Foundation
Sena Institute of Technology Foundation was incorporated in January 2019 as a non-profit corporation under Chapter 180 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. SIT Foundation (EIN # 83-3023837) is a federally recognized tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 501(c)(3). USA donors are able to take tax deductions for donations to the extent permitted by law. Your donation enables us to execute the mission and vision of the Sena Institute of Technology in Ghana. The foundation 1) Raises funds for the Institute 2) Shares our discoveries with the American community and 3) Connects our research goals with US institutions.
Building a biotechnology and training ecosystem in Ghana
——— A model for biotechnology training in Africa.
About the Founders
Andrews Akwasi Agbleke (aka Kwasi Agbleke) received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Ghana, a doctorate in Genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. On completion of his fellowship, he worked as an Imaging Specialist at the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging before transiting to lead the Sena Institute of Technology (SIT), the first private nonprofit biomedical research center in Ghana. Dr. Agbleke’s doctoral and postdoctoral research interest is on the 3D organization of chromosomes in bacteria and mammalian stem cell nuclei. Recently at SIT, his team has documented over 600 plants and insects and sequenced over 170 marine lives in an effort to document biodiversity in Ghana and their further application as model organisms for genetic research (biorepository). The Institute is also involved in an international effort to elucidate the genetic mechanism of uterine fibroid, which is common among black women (women health). He supervises undergraduate and graduate students’ research and is actively involved in their training at the Institute. Dr. Agbleke serves as the Founding President of SIT, Chair of the Organizing Committee for the first Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) conference in Africa and Founding President of the Genetics Society of West Africa.
Contact Us:
- info@sitghana.org
- sitfoundations@gmail.com
Phone:
- Ghana: +233 24 317 1354
- USA: +1 617 903 7969
Office Hours:
- Monday – Friday: 9 am to 5 pm