Prof. Segun Fatumo

Professor Segun Fatumo is the head of NCD Genomics at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and Chair of Genomic Diversity at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in Genomics and other omics of complex diseases in African Populations. He co-led the first Genome-wide Association study (GWAS) of cardiometabolic traits in Africa and led the first GWAS of Kidney functions in continental African populations. He is the director of the KidneyGenAfrica Research Partnership Programme - A Partnership that delivers Research and Training Excellence in Genomics of Kidney Disease in Africa. 

Professor Segun Fatumo leads the Uganda Genome Resource and co-leads the Nigerian 100K genomes project  - A public-private concerted effort to see over 100,000 Nigerians participate in the eponymous study, which will seek to understand the genetic basis of the highly prevalent non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Nigeria such as chronic kidney, diabetes, obesity among others. Professor Fatumo is the Founder and pioneer President of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network and a former vice-president of the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB).

Professor Segun Fatumo is strongly committed to increasing diversity in genomic studies and was recently awarded the prestigious MRC Impact prize for advocating for the inclusion of Africa in genomic research and championing genetic risk prediction of complex diseases in Africa populations. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and is actively involved in capacity building across Africa.

Segun Fatumo  received postdoctoral training in genetic epidemiology at the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute and a postdoctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Prior to that, He had postgraduate training in Bioinformatics at the University of Cologne, Germany and Ph.D. in Computer Science (Bioinformatics specialization) from Covenant University, Nigeria.