CApIC-ACE is built on the existing infrastructure and personnel as well as externally-funded research projects and collaborations for malaria, Federated Genomic (FEDGEN)(NIH H3ABioNet, NIH WASLITBRe and German Science Foundation (aka DFG) being run by CUBRe) and cancer (CaPTC ) at Covenant University. It hopes to evolve a FEDGEN cloud infrastructure (with in-memory computing and cloud AI capabilities) customised to process and analyse indigenous genomic data to address African health issues including health education, medication efficiency and early disease diagnosis.

Also, it strives to develop new diagnostic biomarkers for prostate and breast cancers as well as drug candidates for malaria. Covenant Applied Informatics and Communication Africa Centre of Excellence (CApIC-ACE) domiciled at Covenant University is one of the centres selected to be funded by the World Bank for 2019 – 2024 ACE-IMPACT (recently extended to 2025) which was announced on November 13, 2018 at an elaborate meeting held at the National Universities Commission.

To be a leading teaching and research center of excellencewith state-of-the-art infrastructures that are dedicated to building indigenous capacity through training in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Biology and ICT to reduce the disease burden in Africa.

CApIC-ACE is working on the development of new treatment and control for malaria, new diagnosis and treatment for prostate and breast cancers and to evolve a Federated Genomic (FEDGEN) cloud infrastructure towards an informatics based genomic research in Africa and the development of personalized medicine.