{"id":15867,"date":"2026-06-20T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-in-the-spotlight-a-fellowship-award-from-the-wellcome-trust-foundation-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:28:27","slug":"iita-in-the-spotlight-a-fellowship-award-from-the-wellcome-trust-foundation-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-in-the-spotlight-a-fellowship-award-from-the-wellcome-trust-foundation-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA in the spotlight: A fellowship award from the Wellcome Trust Foundation in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"IITA Molecular Entomologist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/djouaka-rousseau\/\">Rousseau Djouaka<\/a>\u00a0has been awarded a fellowship from the prestigious British foundation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/\">Wellcome Trust<\/a>. The foundation conducts a highly competitive selection process, choosing Fellows for funding from scientists working on topics related to human health.\n<div id=\"attachment_4551\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wellcome-Trust-p01-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4551\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Fellowship awardee, Dr Rousseau Djouaka.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nDjouaka, who is based at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>-Cotonou in Benin, will be receiving funding for the next 5 years (till 2024) from Wellcome Trust-UK to carry out research on the use of synthetic agrochemicals by farmers and their contributions to insecticide resistance selection in the malaria vectors. Mosquitoes that transmit malaria are becoming increasingly resistant to the chemical insecticides used to control them and this might be due to the inappropriate use of the same chemicals in farming to kill crop pests.\n\nDuring the 5-year International fellowship, Djouaka will determine the resistance status of mosquitoes breeding around different types of crops found in West and Central Africa, comparing them with those breeding in areas with no agricultural activity. He will also identify which cropping system has a greater risk of contributing to resistance in mosquitoes that transmit malaria.\n\nHis research activities will be conducted at IITA stations in Benin and Cameroon, at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstmed.ac.uk\/\">Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine<\/a>\u00a0(LSTM-UK), and at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.uoc.gr\/\">University of Crete<\/a>, Greece. Information from this research will be useful for agriculture workers and malaria-control decision makers.\n\nVisit this link for more details:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/funding\/people-and-projects\/grants-awarded\/do-agricultural-insecticides-utilisation-west-and-central\">https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/funding\/people-and-projects\/grants-awarded\/do-agricultural-insecticides-utilisation-west-and-central<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IITA Molecular Entomologist, Rousseau Djouaka has been awarded a fellowship from the prestigious British foundation, Wellcome Trust.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15868,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1538],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[197],"class_list":["post-15867","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iita-news-no-2479iita-cotonoulstm-ukrousseau-djouakauniversity-of-cretewellcome-trust","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-197"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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