Zimbabwe Backs Nanotechnology As Route to New Drugs

11 December 2012

Cape Town — The Zimbabwean government has shown signs of embracing nanotechnology, earmarking it for extensive funding from the science ministry's 2013 budget for new programmes.

According to Rungano Karimanzira, director of commercialisation of research and development at the ministry, 60 per cent of the new programme funding has been allocated to nanotechnology - a move announced with the unveiling of the national budget last month (16 November).

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