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Third Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
3 November - 9 November 2023

Recorded sessions

  • Prof Michele Ramsay - Participant

    MADIVA (Multimorbidity in Africa: Digital innovation, visualisation and application) (Co-PI)

    Michèle Ramsay (PhD) is director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), Professor in Human Genetics and South African Research Chair in Genomics and Bioinformatics of African Populations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She collaborates widely on projects related to genetic associations with complex diseases (mostly related to cardiometabolic diseases and traits), pharmacogenomics and population genetics in African populations. The research team explores genetic variation in African populations and seeks to understand gene-gene and gene-environment interactions that influence disease risk. Key to her research are capacity strengthening, extensive collaboration, large datasets and novel analysis techniques that are catalysts for knowledge to fuel precision medicine approaches (especially with a focus on African populations).