Access is often the difference between potential and progress. For two African STARS fellows, it led directly to employment, independence, and the ability to shape...
SmartPath Roundtable: Designing a pathway that no woman falls through.
On 4 March, partners from across clinical care, public health, diagnostics, government, and research gathered at the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch...
Call for Applications: 29th International Bioinformatics & Virus Evolution & Molecular Epidemiology (VEME)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: #VEME2026 Are you a scientist working in virus evolution, bioinformatics, genomic surveillance, or related computational fields? Applications are now open for the...
Building Stronger Health Systems Through African Scientific Leadership
Building Stronger Health Systems Through African Scientific Leadership Across Africa, epidemics do not unfold in laboratories. They unfold within complex systems shaped by funding structures,...
Deborah Damilola Abolarinwa – Nigeria
Deborah Abolarinwa is a microbiology graduate with experience in wet-lab research, computational drug design, and structural biology. Her interests include pathogen genomics, antimicrobial resistance, and...
Thato Phenyo – Botswana
Thato Phenyo is a laboratory scientist at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, specialising in molecular diagnostics and viral genomics. Her work includes PCR, ELISA, sequencing,...
Fekraddis Molla Yalew – Ethiopia
Fekraddis Molla Yalew is a lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Gondar. She holds a BSc in Biology and an MSc...
Beatrice Mbamba – Malawi
Beatrice Mbamba is a Malawian microbiologist committed to strengthening infectious disease diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance surveillance in low-resource settings. Her experience spans clinical microbiology, laboratory...
Nicholas Mogoi – Kenya
Nicholas Mogoi is a molecular microbiologist from Kenya specialising in antimicrobial resistance and pathogen genomics. His work focuses on understanding the transmission of multidrug-resistant pathogens...
Ataribu Ovuzonye Samue -Nigeria
Ataribu Ovuzonye Samuel is an applied mathematics graduate from Nigeria with research experience in biomathematics, disease dynamics, and computational modelling. He has authored peer-reviewed publications...