Victor Anomah Ngu

Victor Anomah Ngu (* 1926 in Buea ; † June 14, 2011 in Yaoundé ) was a doctor and surgeon from Cameroon .

Ngu studied from 1948 at the University of Ibadan and from 1951 to 1954 at the St Mary's Hospital Medical School of the University of London (where he received the Max Bonn Prize in Pathology in 1954). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . In 1962 he received a master's degree in surgery from the University of London. He was then a surgeon at the University Hospital in Ibadan (from 1960 Senior Registrar, from 1962 Lecturer), where he founded the West African College of Surgeons and the Association of Surgeons of West Africa (ASWA). In 1965 he became professor of surgery at the University of Ibadan and in 1971 at the University of Youndé, where he was Vice Chancellor from 1974 to 1982. From 1984 to 1991 he was director of the Cancer Research Laboratory (CUSS) at Yaoundé University. From 1993 to 2004 he was Pro-Chancellor at the University of Buea .

From 1981 to 1982 he was President of the Association of African Universities and from 1984 to 1988 Minister of Health in Cameroon.

In 1972 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award . He received the award for his contributions to the fight against Burkitt's lymphoma and related cancers in West Africa. From 1961 he tested various chemotherapeutic agents and achieved a 90 percent regression and a five-year survival rate of 40 percent in around 400 patients.

He dealt with cancer immunotherapy and the relationship between viruses and cancer. Later he turned to the fight against AIDS and introduced a vaccine (Vanhivax).

Web links

• Christopher O. Bode, obituary, Journal of the West African College of Surgeons, PMC 4614966 (free full text)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lasker Award 1972