Africa-Press – Liberia. Roughly five months after emerging as a winner of the 2025 African Genius Award (AGA), world-renowned African biomedical scientist and inventor, Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan, has received the AGA Medal, plaques, and memorabilia for his valuable contribution to Africa and humanity in biomedical science and technology, public health, and medicine. The AGA Medal and other memorabilia were sent via courier service from South Africa and only recently delivered in Monrovia, Liberia to the laureate, Dr. Nyan.
“I am humbled to have finally received the Africa Genius Award Medal and memorabilia which signify the height of African ingenuity, recognition of its home-grown talents, and strengthen my pan-Africanist commitment to serving my country, the African continent and humanity,” Dr. Nyan said.
Dr. Nyan was among 16 brilliant Africans that won the prestigious African Genius Award in 2025, out of over one-hundred nominated entries from around the continent and the diaspora. His professional performance has been determined to be indubitably extra-ordinary to warrant genius status.
“African governments should substantially invest in supporting African innovations so as to decolonized science and technology, and stop depending on hand-outs and donations,” Dr. Nyan emphasized.
As attendance of the award programme was not required, but welcome, Dr. Nyan utilized the time in September 2025 to lead a Liberian delegation of young scientists to the continental Lassa fever conference held in La Cote D’Ivoire.
The AGA is a continental project based in South African and aims to recognise exceptionally high IQ Africans that have made an outstanding contribution towards the realisation of African self-determination, dignity and exceptionalism. The AGA project partners include the University of Johannesburg, Plus-94 Research, Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Institute, the African Dream, and Brandhill Africa, among others.
Earlier, an official AGA nomination letter congratulated Dr. Nyan stating that, “Your impactful contributions to your community, your country, and the continent have earned you a place among Africa’s most exceptional minds and changemakers. We are honoured to recognise your [Dr. Nyan’s] work, and we celebrate the brilliance, innovation, and leadership you represent.”
Nyan is the globally renowned inventor of the Rapid Multiplex Isothermal Diagnostic Test for Infectious Diseases (the NYAN-TEST). The test is easy to use, less expensive, detects multiple diseases in less than an hour, and has been granted three United States Patents. It cuts down the long waiting time for test results and serves urban as well as remote communities in Africa and the world.
A public health expert, Dr. Nyan’s leadership at Liberia’s National Public Health Institute (NPHIL) is credited with building the technical, diagnostic, surveillance capacities of the entities and led it to heights of being designated as a Regional Center of Excellence by the Africa Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC). Nyan introduced the Genomic Sequencing technology at the National Public Health Institute of Liberia and led a team of scientists that discovered Mpox Clade IIa in Liberia, about 55 years since the first Monkeypox virus was detected in Liberia around 1970.
Dr. Nyan has won several awards including the 2017 Africa Innovation Award for Social Impact, the 2016 Ward Fund Lifetime Achievement Award in Science and Medicine, 2021 Manevia African Leadership Award in Public Healthcare Innovation, 2022 Emma Shannon Walser Patriotism Medal for Rule of Law, Good Governance and National Development, and the Humane Order of African Redemption Award, Liberia’s highest civilian honour.
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