Prof Leon Mutesa
University of Rwanda, Rwanda
Speakers & Mentors
Prof Hans Tomas Bjornsson
University of Iceland, Iceland
Prof Michele Ramsay
University of the Witwatersrand, SA
Prof Robert Kuhn
Robert Kuhn Consulting, USA
Dr Aimé Lumaka
University of Kinshasa, DR Congo
Dr Andreas Laner
MGZ – Medizinisch Genetisches Zentrum München, Germany
Prof Christian T. Happi
Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics; Founder & Director, World Bank-funded African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID)
Prof Collet Dandara
Fellow Africa Academy of Sciences (AAS), Fellow South African Academy of Sciences (ASSAf), SA
Prof Iscia Lopes-Cendes
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Prof Alice Matimba
Wellcome Connecting Science, UK
Prof Maria Madalena Chimpolo
Agostinho Neto University, Angola
Prof Rokhaya Ndiaye
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Dr Yosr Hamdi
Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
Prof Nicola Mulder
University of Cape Town, SA
Prof Olufunmilayo Olopade
University of Chicago, USA
Dr Shyam Prabhakar
A*Star Singapore, Singapore
Prof Ami Bhatt
Stanford University, USA
Dr Laura Zahn
Cell Genomics, USA
Prof Jin Billy Li
Stanford University, USA
Prof Ambroise Wonkam
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, University of Cape Town, SA
Dr Rizwana Mia
SAMRC, SA
Dr Nonia Pariente
PLOS Biology, UK
Prof Nara Sobreira
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Prof Michael Snyder
Stanford University, USA
Dr Bruce Korf
AJHG, USA
Prof Konrad Karczewski
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Segun Fatumo
Queen Mary University of London, UK, MRC, Uganda
Dr Paul Ogendi
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Deborah Mascalzoni
Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof Ada Hamosh
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof Charles Lee
The Jackson Laboratory, USA
Prof Juergen Reichardt
James Cook University, Australia
Prof Karen Miga
UCSC, USA
Prof Ma’n Zawati
McGill University, Canada
Dr Piero Carninci
Human Technopole, RIKEN, Italy
Prof Raj Ramesar
University of Cape Town, SA
Prof Zilfalil Bin Alwi
Universiti Sains, Malaysia
Prof Benjamin Capps
Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr Anna Laura Ross
WHO, Switzerland
Prof Erin Riggs
Geisinger College of Health Sciences, USA
Prof Donrich Thaldar
University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA
Dr Ciara Staunton
Eurac Research, Ireland
Dr Catalina Lopez-Correa
Genome Canada, Canada
Prof Kunal Sanghavi
The Jackson Laboratory, India
Prof Michael Pepper
University of Pretoria, SA
Prof Samir K Brahmachari
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
Prof Edward S. Tobias
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK