Biography
Dr. Lucas N. Amenga-Etego is a Research Fellow at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Department of Biochemistry Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana. He was a Research Fellow and Head of the Biomedical Science Department at the Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana from June 2013 until January 2018. His background is in microbiology and genetic/genomic epidemiology of malaria and his research interest is in infectious diseases with specific focus on the genetic contribution to malaria disease susceptibility (or resistance) and antimalarial drug resistance. For the past 10 years, he has collaborated with colleagues from the Big Data Centre, University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK to conduct studies into the genetic diversity and population structure of Plasmodium falciparum populations and malaria vector mosquitoes in northern Ghana. He also conducts antimalarial drug resistance surveillance studies in northern Ghana. He is a founding member of the Plasmodium Diversity Network Africa (PDNA) and a co-PI of the H3Africa Pan-African Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (PAMGen).