Yemaachi Biotechnology is a healthtech company co-founded by Yaw Bediako, an experienced cancer researcher. His extensive experience earned him an affiliate membership in the African Academy of Sciences.
Ghanaian Yaw Bediako (photo) is the CEO and Co-founder of Yemaachi Biotechnology, a healthtech company based in Accra (Ghana) with offices in Washington D.C (USA). In 2011, he graduated from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago with a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology.
With Yemaachi Biotechnology, he turns immunogenomics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence into assets for the early detection and cure of cancer in Africa. The healthtech was founded in 2020, with David Hutchful, Joyce Ngoi, and Yaw Attua-Afari as co-founders.
In March 2021, it successfully raised US$3 million in development funds from investors like Y Combinator, V Square Capital, VestedWorld, V8 Capital Partners, Tencent, LoftyInc Capital Management, LifeLine Family Heritage Fund, and Ethan Perlstein.
According to Yaw Bediako, Yemaachi Biotechnology was launched to give Africa a saying in oncology and genome research, using artificial intelligence and data science.
“Creating a dataset that has the greatest genomic diversity can enable rapid discoveries that have long-term implications for cancer research, drug development, and patient care, not just in Africa, but globally,” says Yaw Bediako.
The Ghanaian CEO has extensive experience in cancer research. He is currently a research fellow at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens at the University of Ghana. In London, he has been, for four years, a postdoctoral fellow at the Francis Crick Institute. For twelve months, he was a research assistant at the Calvin Institute of Technology in Indonesia and the Van Andel Institute in the United States.
In recognition of his commitment, Yaw Bediako was recently selected as an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences. He is also an executive member of the African Science Initiative, a project to network and promote African scientists worldwide.
Melchior Koba
