The medical research partnership between the University at Buffalo and the University of Zimbabwe started in 1998 as a research project to study how HIV medicines developed in the U.S. and Europe could be used to fight the raging AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Today, 24 years and several federal grants later, the partnership is helping the University of Zimbabwe build the Health Galaxy Park, a “twin” of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus that will be a biomedical research and health care hub for Southeast Africa, said Gene Morse, a UB professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences and director of UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences.