Nzila Alexis was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2009. As a fellow, Nzila Alexis contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year Elected
2009
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year Elected
2009
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Alexis Nzila currently leads a research group at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. One of his key research areas focuses on the understanding the mechanism of antimalarial resistance. From 2008-2010, he was supported by the CGGH to study phenotypic variation in the drug sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected Kilifi District, and to investigate genotype-phenotype associations using genome sequencing data generated on these isolates at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. This work was carried out in collaboration with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and relates to Alexis’s longstanding interest in the mechanism of action of antimalarial drugs such as lumefantrine, piperaquine and amodiaquine.