Fattah Neuroscience Global Advisors Develops International Partnership to Build African Neuroscience
January 24 2022 - 10:24PM
Recently, Fattah Neuroscience Global Advisors LLC (FNGA), a
consulting firm founded by former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah,
Sr., committed to advancing brain science and health related
research efforts worldwide, and the Brain Wellness Initiative of
Africa (BWI) executed an agreement for a five-year partnership. The
parties were brought together through the efforts of Luminous
Strategies LLC, a Pennsylvania-based government relations and
public policy firm.
Penned at a signing ceremony at the headquarters of the African
American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ & DE, the agreement
establishes a framework for FNGA to provide consulting services
that will empower the BWI to fulfill its mission of elevating
neuroscience research and brain health. FNGA will work with
strategic U.S. and international partners, and team members,
including African continental and regional bodies, and other allied
organizations to advance this interest.
Professor Amadi O. Ihunwo, Founder, Brain Wellness Initiative
(BWI) remarked, “Chaka Fattah is a proven champion of neuroscience,
universally noted for his leadership in the launching of the U.S.
Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies
(BRAIN) Initiative. We are confident that as our strategic partner,
Fattah Neuroscience with its capabilities and network of
relationships will help us achieve real and measurable progress
towards our goals.”
“As we expand our footprint, the need for additional investment
in Africa is a top priority. There are critical investments that
need to be made to find solutions to the most pressing challenges
in brain science and brain health. Our team members will work to
bring resources to expand the neuroscience ecosystem in Africa,”
said Chaka Fattah, President, FNGA.
Professor Amadi, an educator at heart, spoke to a class of
science students at the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, a
Philadelphia science-immersion public school located in Mr.
Fattah’s home neighborhood of Wynnefield, about the importance of
brain science.
Mr. Fattah and Professor Amadi met with Professor Adeboye
Adejare, a Nigerian-born Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of Sciences.
In addition to discussing Professor Adejare’s new book, Drug
Discovery Approaches for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative
Disorders: Alzheimer’s Disease, they discussed and agreed to
collaborate on important parts of the BWI activities on a
going-forward basis.
Mr. Fattah and Professor Amadi recently gave a prime-time
interview to Black News Channel’s Black News Tonight with Marc
Lamont Hill. They both discussed South African scientists’ early
discovery of the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 and
how this enabled governments and health agencies around the world
to get a head start on responding to its spread and therefore
saving lives.
As the aim of preventing, treating, and eradicating infectious
diseases takes a global effort, of which African scientists have
proven to be important collaborators, Mr. Fattah and Professor
Amadi stated that to advance continual discoveries in the treatment
and cure of brain diseases, African brain scientists and their
research activities must be elevated to a global level.
They further explained that Africa, wherein the modern human
brain developed, and home to a unique fauna and flora diversity, is
ready to drive brain science and neuro-data research. Mr. Fattah
and Professor Amadi expressed that it is time to give credit to the
fact that African-centered, African-controlled, and
African-directed neuroscience research matters, and that its
development is vital and indispensable to the success of the global
brain project.
Interview with Marc Lamont Hill of Black News Tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWRhNJMqh8
Additional Photos from the Partnership Signing:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dxw74YwtxlMhyGcqxuLLE5Sw85BZswZT?usp=sharing
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About Fattah Neuroscience Global Advisors
Fattah Neuroscience Global Advisors was created to support the
advancement of brain research. During his tenure as a U.S.
Congressman, Fattah facilitated the creation of the Interagency
Working Group on Neuroscience whose flagship project is the Brain
Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
Initiative, which is focused in part on developing better
technologies and tools to accelerate progress in
neuroscience. https://www.fattahadvisors.com/
About Brain Wellness Initiative
Brain Wellness Initiative is a legacy project founded by
Professor Amadi O. Ihunwo to promote African-centered brain
research. Professor Amadi is the incoming Head of the School of
Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits),
Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is also a professor of anatomy
and neuroscientist in the faculty of health sciences. Professor
Amadi is the immediate past Secretary-General/CEO of the Society of
Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA) and now Chair of the SONA
Governing Council.
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