Stella Ifeanyi SMITH (PhD)
Stella Ifeanyi SMITH (PhD) was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2022. As a fellow, Stella Ifeanyi SMITH (PhD) contributes to the development of the Academy’s strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. . This gears the Academys vision of transforming african lives through science.
Stella Ifeanyi SMITH (PhD) is a Director of Research, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research and a Professor of Microbiology, at Mountain Top University.
She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (1997), a pre-doctoral fellowship with EU Scholarship, Manchester, UK, and post-doctoral fellowships at Bordeaux, France, Dresden, and Munich all in Germany with INSERM and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships respectively.
Her special interests are Molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and microbiome of infectious diseases, and is in the top 5% of researchers in Africa working on H. pylori for which she is the founding President of the African Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group.
She was listed amongst the ‘List of 10 Nigerian women pulling their weight in Science’ by Leadership newspaper, 2017 and ‘16 Prominent Nigerian women that excelled in Science and Research’ by silverbirdtv.com, is a recipient of the 19th Edition of the Who is Who in the world and was Chair of the Panel Session on ‘Women in Science: Career Perspectives for Junior Scientists” in Entebbe, Uganda.
She was a consultant to the Maastricht VI project, Real-World Gastritis Initiative (RE.GA.IN), Italy as the only African with 29 countries involved.
She was supervisor/co-supervisor to several BSc, MSC, and PhD (17) theses and has built a capacity of 720 participants in molecular biology hands-on-training with over 50 attendances in international conferences.
She is the Co-Chair of the Food-Borne Disease Genomic Surveillance Network, an initiative of the African CDC.
She was an Editorial Board Member of the World Journal of Gastroenterology, a Special issue Editor of Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter, (Antibiotics and Microorganisms journal respectively), and is Associate Editor of Digestive Diseases. She is IFBA certified in biorisk management.
She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science (FAS), Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine Specialties (FAMedS), and has 202 peer-reviewed publications, Google Scholar citation 4355, h-index 35, and Scopus h-index 24.
