Elected: 2015
Country (Nationality)
Burkina Faso
Discipline
Biosciences
Bio
University of Ouagadougou and Rector of Saint Thomas Aquinas University. He is also Director of the Research Centre of Biomolecular CERBA / LABIOGENE He has published more than 150 scientific publications with an impact factor total above 250 in international journals that include Nature, Nature Genetics and Science. He holds two international patents and deposited over 250 DNA sequences in GeneBank.
He Contributed to exploring the mechanism of protection against Plasmodium falciparum in individuals with Hemoglobin S and C (Modiano et al.,2001, Cyrklaff et al.,2011); to implement the programme for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and to determine HIV anti-retroviral resistance (Simpore et al.,2007); to study CCR5D32, HLAB*57, DC-Sign that confer genetic resistance against HIV infection (Kagone et al.,2014); to characterize human papillomavirus that induce cervical cancer (Ouedraogo et al.,2015); to Discover for the first time in Africa Chryseobacterium indologenes (ZEBA et al.,2009); to Identify the chemical composition, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative activities of essential oils of plants from BF (Bagora et al.,2014).
Prof. Simpore is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Burkina (ANSAL-BF) and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), Vatican. Decorated Officer of the National Order, BF; distinguished Officer of the Order of Academic Palms, BF; Distinguished“Knight of the International Order of Academic Palms”, CAMES.