Laud Anthony Basing is Scientist, Engineer, Innovator and Entrepreneur. He is the CEO and Founder of Incas diagnostics, which seeks to save lives through the design and production of low-cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic test kits and the Executive Director of Incas Impact Foundation, a foundation which offers mentorship, training and capacity building for Ghanaian youth. Laud is passionate about research, and with a background in both Microbiology and Biomedical Engineering, Laud's research interest has been in developing simple tests for infectious diseases that impact vulnerable population in Africa. He worked with the University of Liverpool and researchers from 13 countries from 2009 to 2013 on the effect of climate change on Health outcomes. He worked with the World Health Organization in Ghana and Papua New Guinea on yaws eradication from 2015 to 2016 and worked with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University in the United States to develop low cost, mobile enable test devices for HIV and Yaws. He currently leads an EDCTP funded program to evaluate a rapid diagnostics for yaws in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon. He has made Poster and oral presentations in Nigeria, Mali, Spain, South Africa, China, Cape Verde, Kenya and the United States. Laud Anthony Basing is a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow in the Business and Entrepreneurship track and was previously, the Chairman of the Linkages Committee of the West and Central African Regional Advisory Board for the fellowship. Laud is the first Ghanaian to have been nominated for the Innovation Prize for Africa, was named one of the 50 most influential young Ghanaians in 2017 and a 2017 40under40 winner in the health and wellness category in Ghana. Laud won first place in the social innovation track of the 2018 Burton Morgan Business Model Competition in Purdue University and Second place in the 2017 Shurz Innovation Challenge for developing a urine-based test Kit for Sexually transmitted diseases. In March of 2019, Laud was named one of the top 30 innovators in health in Africa in the WHO's Africa Innovation Challenge for developing a molecular-based rapid test kit for the yaws. In March of 2020, Laud led a team from Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa and Nigeria to win WHO’s Covid19 Hackathon with CoviTTrads a Covid19 testing and tracking platform. In April 2020, Laud led a team of scientists from Incas Diagnostics to collaborate with KNUST to develop a rapid test kit for covid19 and in May 2020, he won Africa.com’s Brilliant African Innovations Against COVID-19.