Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Prof Emile Rugamika Chimusa - Participant

DS-I Africa Coordinating Center (Member of DS-I Africa Partnership & Outreach Working Group)

Dr. Chimusa is a Professor of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at Northumbria University, Newcastle UK. Chimusa's research builds on his strong mathematics and bioinformatics background and focuses on bioinformatics, computational, and Artificial Intelligence approaches as well as tool development pertinent to genomic diversity to uncover the role of genetic and environmental in determining population segmentation, disease risk prediction, and stratification as well as individuals' susceptibility to communicable and non-communicable diseases and drug responses. He leads projects devoted to examining multiple causes that reduce current cross-population transferability, generalizability, and portability issues in disease risk prediction and risk stratification in diverse ethnicities. He has an additional interest in human and microbial genome variation and approaches for multi-omics data integration for both the host and pathogen perspectives to facilitate the transformation of genomics-driven clinical practice and population health. I have long-standing experience in developing software packages (https://github.com/echimusa) and a record of peer-reviewed research publications and educational pedagogy articles (ORCID:0000-0001-8846-2047). He has recently been awarded The UK Academy of Medical Sciences Professorship to leverage large multi-omics and biomedical data to disentangle ancestry-specific contributions to genetic and environment liability in disease risk prediction and stratification.