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Professor Segun Fatumo

Segun

Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity

Email: s.fatumo@qmul.ac.uk

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Segun Fatumo is Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at Queen Mary University of London and the head of NCD Genomics at the MRC Uganda. He specialises in Genomics and other Omics of African Populations using approaches such as Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), Polygenic Risk Score Analysis (PRS) and Mendelian Randomisation (MR). He co-led the first major GWAS of cardiometabolic traits in Africa and led the first GWAS of Kidney functions in continental African populations. Segun Fatumo is co-director of the KidneyGenAfrica Research Partnership Programme - A Partnership to Deliver Research and Training Excellence in Genomics of Kidney Disease in Africa. Segun Fatumo is strongly committed to increasing diversity in genomic studies and was recently awarded the prestigious MRC Impact prize for advocating for the inclusion of Africa in genomic research and championing genetic risk prediction of complex diseases in Africa populations. 

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