Eddy Agbo

Agbo held university positions at Utrecht University, Wageningen University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. He did biomedical research for many years.^[2] Agbo moved to the USA to work for the Johns Hopkins University.^[3] He was a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He left Johns Hopkins to work for Cangen Biotechnologies. Cangen is a cancer therapeutics and diagnostics firm in Baltimore. There he was Senior Director for Research and Preclinical Development and Chief Technical Lead.^[2]

In 2008 he founded Fyodor.^[3]

In 2012 Fyodor won a minority-owned business achievement award from the Greater Baltimore Committee.^[3]

In June 2016^[4] Fyodor won the Innovation Prize for Africa in the category Special Prize for Social Impact.^[5] The $25,000 prize^[6] was awarded by the Africa Innovation Foundation. Fyodor won for its Urine Malaria Test.^[5] The test can diagnose malaria in 25 minutes.^[7]