Genomics Africa Fellow: Mohamed Saio Kamara

Mohamed Saio Kamara is the acting laboratory lead at VHF Laboratory Sierra Leone Ministry of Health

Mohamed Saio Kamara came to the CLIMADE fellowship CERI at the University of Stellenbosch to receive training on pathogen sequencing to enhance their work in whole genome sequencing of climate amplified diseases and other epidemics in Sierra Leone.

Duration of the fellowship: 12 November 2023 to 25 November 2023.

Training received: Advanced Bioinformatics analysis and Hands-on sequencing on Illumina sequencing..

Fellowship sponsors: CLIMADE program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and World Bank.