Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Kenya
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Bio
Benard W. Kulohoma is an African scientist with a wide range of research interests that include: capacity building, bioinformatics, genomics, population genetics, infectious diseases (invasive pneumococcal disease and animal African trypanosomiasis), and non-communicable diseases (type II diabetes). His primary research goals are directed towards development and use of analysis pipelines, and tools to explore large-scale data, especially in resource poor-settings. He is currently based at the University of Nairobi's Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics; and continues to contribute to scientific research efforts in large genomics and bioinformatics consortia (H3Africa, EANBIT, THRIVE, UKBioBank) across the globe and supervise postgraduate students. Benard received his Ph.D. in Genomics from the University of Liverpool (2012), Masters degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester (2010), and his Bachelors degree (First class honours) in Biochemistry from the University of Nairobi (2006). He has vast experience in genomics, bioinformatics and big data analytics; has received several international awards for his scientific contributions; and has published pertinent research journal papers and book chapters in his field.