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Dr. Bright Adu
BSc, MPhil, PhD
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Roles

  1. Research Fellow, Department of Immunology
  2. Coordinator, Noguchi Next Generation Sequencing and WHO-Africa CDC SARS-CoV-2 Regional Sequencing Labs
  3. Biosafety Officer, Department of Immunology

Focus of Work

  1. Human genetics
  2. Pathogen genomics
  3. Immunology of parasitic and viral infections

 

Current projects 

  • Title: Targeted Next Generation Sequencing as a tool for large-scale early diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism in Ghana.

Funder: Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa) Project II (Seed Research Grants)

  • Functional immune-genetic correlates of malaria immunity. 

Funder: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

  • African Pathogen Genomics Initiative (NMIMR-Africa CDC/WHO Regional Lab)

Funder: African Society of Laboratory Medicine/ African Union Commission 

  • Impacts of Environment, Host Genetics and Antigen Diversity on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy.

Funder: NIH/NIAID

Publications

National Center For Biotechnology Information

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/bright.adu.1/bibliography/public/