Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Segun Fatumo is a computational geneticist with a speciality in
Genomics of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in African Populations.
He is the head of NCD Genomics at MRC Uganda and an Associate
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) UK. Segun Fatumo
specialises in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), Polygenic
Risk Score Analysis (PRS) and Mendelian Randomisation (MR). He
co-led the first major GWAS of cardiometabolic traits in Africa and
led the first GWAS of Kidney functions in continental African
populations. Segun Fatumo is co-director of the emerging
KidneyGenAfrica Research Partnership Programme - A Partnership to
Deliver Research and Training Excellence in Genomics of Kidney
Disease in Africa. 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.
Segun Fatumo leads the Uganda Genome Resource and co-leads the
Nigerian Non-Communicable Diseases - Genetic Heritage Study
(NCD-GHS) Consortium - A 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. Segun Fatumo is highly collaborative
and involved in major genomics consortia including H3Africa, CKDGen,
MAGIC, GBMI, PGC-Africa, IHCC, GLGC and PRIMED/CARDINAL. He is the
Founder and pioneer President of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and
Genomics Network and the immediate past vice-president of the
African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(ASBCB).
He is actively involved in capacity building across Africa. He
organises and teaches on various genomic analysis workshops in
Africa including PhD supervision at Makerere University Uganda,
Covenant University Nigeria, the University of Sciences, Techniques,
and Technology of Bamako (USTTB) Mali, and the H3Africa
Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet) node at the Centre for Genomics
Research and Innovation, National Biotechnology Development Agency
(CGRI-NABDA) in Abuja, Nigeria. Segun Fatumo is a Fellow of the
Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK and teaches on various MSc
programmes and supervises PhD students at LSHTM.
He has been featured in notable media outlets including BBC, The
Telegraph, Wired, Science Magazine, Forbe, Drug Discovery News, etc.
He gives regular invited and keynote presentations at major
conferences around the globe and serves as an associate editor for
high impact journals including Genome Medicine, BMC Medical
Genomics, Heliyon, Frontiers in Genetics, PLOS Global Public
Health.
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
applied Bioinformatics at the University of Cologne, Germany and PhD
in Computer Science (Bioinformatics specialization) from Covenant
University, Nigeria. During his Ph.D. Programme, he developed a
model which identified twenty-two (22) potential novel drug targets
against malaria, some of which have been tested and validated
experimentally.