{"id":1615,"date":"2025-08-05T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:23:37","slug":"kingstone-nihaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/2025\/08\/05\/kingstone-nihaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingstone Nihaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1615\" class=\"elementor elementor-1615\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba26c6c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3ba26c6c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31c3aa22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31c3aa22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"424\" class=\"wp-image-1645 alignleft\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-1267x1536.jpg 1267w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-10x12.jpg 10w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kingstone_Nihaka-600x727.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><strong>Pa\u00eds:<\/strong> Zimb\u00e1bue<br \/><br \/><strong>Forma\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong> YPP<br \/><br \/>Kingstone Nihaka \u00e9 cofundador da Plasmigene, uma startup de biotecnologia que produz plasm\u00eddeos e ferramentas moleculares. Doutorando em Biotecnologia e bolsista Mandela Washington, ele defende a democratiza\u00e7\u00e3o do acesso \u00e0 biotecnologia em toda a \u00c1frica. Sua miss\u00e3o \u00e9 capacitar pesquisadores africanos por meio de ferramentas acess\u00edveis e biologia sint\u00e9tica.<br \/><br \/><strong>Institui\u00e7\u00e3o Anfitri\u00e3:<\/strong> CERI, Universidade de Stellenbosch, \u00c1frica do Sul<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country: Zimbabwe Track: YPP Kingstone Nihaka is cofounder of Plasmigene, a biotech startup producing plasmids and molecular tools. A PhD candidate in Biotechnology and Mandela Washington Fellow, he advocates for democratizing biotech access across Africa. His mission is to empower African researchers through affordable tools and synthetic biology. Host Institution: CERI, Stellenbosch University, South Africa<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowships","category-ypp_southafrica_2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}