The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, NOTAP has patented an anti- snake bite vaccine innovation which is first of its kind in the country.
The Director General of NOTAP Dan-Azumi Ibrahim who announced this in Abuja said the agency was glad to identify with the African Center of Excellence in Phytomedicine Research and Development, ACPRD, University of Jos in patenting the first of its kind invention in Nigeria.
Ibrahim said, for NOTAP to patent the vaccine, the technology had been perfected in the course of research and it had passed through different stages.
He added that the innovation is at the stage of clinical trials – testing it on human and getting reactions and the cost of conducting the test will run into many millions of Naira.
The Director General said that the vaccine had already been tried on rats, mice, sheep and it worked without any side effects.
