There is a sense in which returning to the University of Ghana’s Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR or more simply just ‘Noguchi’) is a homecoming. For, as some of you no doubt know, Legon holds many fond memories of my childhood and youth. It is now more than four decades ago, though it feels like only yesterday, but I remember your present office premises, way back to when they were being constructed. The area in which it is situated was a thicket of bush that lay between the main campus and the South Legon residential area. To my youthful mind, South Legon was, among other things, the place where Wole Soyinka was to be found.