Dr Kolapo Oyebola

Dr Kolapo Oyebola is a genomic epidemiologist, bioinformatician, and data scientist with years of international research experience spanning Africa, the United States, and Canada. He holds a PhD in Parasitology and Bioinformatics from the University of Lagos, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as the National Institutes of Health in the United States. His research integrates multi-omics, computational biology, and artificial intelligence to address infectious diseases and global health challenges, with a particular focus on malaria genomics and haematologic disorders. He is currently an NIH Emerging Global Leader and Data Science Instructor at Bow Valley College, Canada. He is the founder of the Centre for Genomic Research in Biomedicine (CEGRIB), at Mountain Top University, Nigeria. Dr Oyebola has published in high-impact journals, including The Lancet, Science, JACC, Blood, and has been supported by competitive funding from the NIH, Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Union. He is an Affiliate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Tumani Corrah Prize for Research Excellence in Africa.