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Institution: Johannesburg<\/p>\n
Project Affiliation: AWI-Gen Phase 2<\/p>\n
Abstract<\/p>\n
Introduction\/Background:<\/strong> I have, for a longtime, cherished the desire to be a leading researcher. This was birthed from my interactions with my nutritional epidemiology lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe during my undergraduate years. I once tried to ignore this quest and worked for relief agencies helping the vulnerable. However, I always saw myself volunteering more to analyse data and make deductions from it. I then decided to return to school and hone my skills to be a leading scientist.<\/p>\n Methodology\/Skillset:<\/strong> At North-West University started to gain skills in nutrigenetics. I learned lab skills, statistics, and key genetic concepts, around 2012 when the H3Africa was beginning. I later, during my PhD, got an H3Bionet scholarship to do a three-monthtraining at Sydney Brenner Molecular Biosciencesin 2016.I later took a postdoc fellowship with Prof Zane Lombard and presented my work at the Rwanda Kigali Meeting of 2017,whichwas part of the AWI-Gen study led by Prof Michele Ramsay. Through the support of these mentors and new found collaborations, I learned to write grant proposals and leverage the interactions to form relationships with the H3Africa committee, which has led to numerous achievements that have decorated my academic career.<\/p>\n Results\/Achievements:<\/strong> I won the prestigious Wellcome Trust Training fellowship, and my project was nested in the H3Africa CVD working group(2019-2023).Win the 2021American Society of Human Genetics Charles Epstein Award of Excellence in Human Genetics. I was invited as a sessional speaker at the American Heart Association to speak about polygenic risk score sand enhancing diversity in H3Africa. Partner with Prof Segun Fatumo, whom I met at H3Africa meetings, to start a research group mentoring African scientists in genomics.<\/p>\n Acknowledgements\/Mentors\/Influencers:<\/strong> My mentors include(Prof Michele Ramsay, Prof Andrew Morris, Prof Paul Franks, and Prof Zane Lombard) and collaborators (Prof Segun Fatumo and Dr Adeyemo Adebowale)<\/p>\n Next steps:<\/strong> I will continue my African genomics research while starting my research group as a junior faculty at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Harvard University in 2023<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=”page” max_items=”-1″ element_width=”3″ item=”5653″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1673282048204-2316c589-309d-2″ taxonomies=”201″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”13601″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_column_text] Tinashe Chikowore H3Africa PI: Mich\u00e8le [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13601,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-13838","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-20th_fellows-emerging_leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other Fellows<\/h3>\n