Pathogen Omics & Translational Infectious Disease Research

I am an interdisciplinary molecular biomedical scientist working across pathogen genomics, antimicrobial resistance, microbial omics, bioinformatics and translational infectious disease research. My academic training spans Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Immunology and Clinical Microbiology.

My current work focuses on using omics-driven approaches to understand pathogens, host vulnerability and biological systems that can inform diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine design, food-supplement discovery and public health interventions.

My research trajectory has developed through training and collaborations in Tanzania, Sweden, Uganda, Botswana and international short-course programmes. I completed a PhD in Molecular Biosciences at the University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with Lund University, an MSc in Immunology and Clinical Microbiology at Makerere University, an MSc in Biochemistry at Sokoine University of Agriculture, and a BSc with Biology and Chemistry majors at the University of Dar es Salaam.

I am currently engaged in postdoctoral work on tuberculosis and malnutrition through the Kibongoto Infectious Disease Hospital–University of Virginia NIH-funded programme.

Scientifically, I am interested in moving beyond surveillance-only genomics toward mechanistic and product-oriented omics. My work integrates genome analysis, comparative pathogenomics, metagenomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, molecular docking and computational biology to study antimicrobial resistance, virulence, host-pathogen interactions, bioprospecting and molecular discovery from African biological systems.

Alongside research, I teach microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology and bioinformatics, and I mentor junior scientists in wet-laboratory and computational approaches. My broader goal is to strengthen African capacity for discovery science that connects molecular evidence with tangible health, biotechnology and One Health solutions.