Gerald Mboowa
Gerald Mboowa is a Bioinformatics & Genomics Research Fellow at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University (MakCHS). Gerald graduated with a MSc in Immunology and Clinical Microbiology at Makerere University in 2014. Later in the same year, he started a fellowship in human Genetics and Genomics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas for two and a half years. He has also done a fellowship in bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge, the United Kingdom. His Ph.D research focused on identifying host functional genetic loci that are important in pediatric HIV/AIDS disease progression in sub-Saharan Africa populations. This work was funded by the Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) of the H3Africa consortium (NIH Grant #: 1U54AI110398) and the DELTAS Africa Initiative Grant #: DEL-15-011 through the Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE-2).Gerald has worked with the Nurturing Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Capacity in Africa (BRecA) programme in developing bioinformatics curricula for both MSc and PhD programs at Makerere University. He is an instructor on a Computational and Molecular Epidemiology Training in TB and HIV in Uganda. Currently, his research interests include; Genomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiome/Metagenomics, and Antimicrobial Resistance.