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Kenyan scholar becomes first African to be granted over 100 patents

Dr. George Njoroge.

A US-based Kenyan researcher has made history as the first African to be granted more than 100 patents by the US Patent and Trade Office.

George Njoroge, senior research fellow at Eli Lilly attained the hallmark with a new discovery of novel ‘molecules used in treating viral infections’.

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