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Arnold Lambisia

SANTHE PhD Fellow


KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) Kilifi, Kenya

Collaboration Interests
  • Bioinformatics
  • Next generation sequencing
  • Virus Genomics

Arnold Lambisia is a Kenyan biomedical researcher based at the KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from Egerton University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya.

From 2019 to 2023, he worked as a bioinformatics research officer, focusing on the evolutionary and transmission dynamics of enteric and respiratory viruses in Kenya and other African countries.

His SANTHE research project focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of beta coronaviruses within and between human hosts in general populations. His work aims to improve understanding of how these viruses adapt, spread, and persist in human populations.

Publications
Multi-species co-circulation of adenoviruses identified by next generation sequencing during an outbreak in coastal Kenya in 2023 Temporal changes in the positivity rate of common enteric viruses among paediatric admissions in coastal Kenya, in the period spanning the COVID-19 pandemic Genomic epidemiology of human adenovirus F40 and F41 in coastal Kenya: A retrospective hospital-based surveillance study Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 Beta-like variant in coastal Kenya after more than a year of disappearance Pooled testing conserves SARS-CoV-2 laboratory resources and improves test turn-around time: experience on the Kenyan Coast Epidemiological Trends of Five Common Diarrhea-Associated Enteric Viruses Preand Post-Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction in Coastal Kenya New SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant with Spike Protein Mutation Y451H, Kilifi, Kenya The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance An optimization of four SARS-CoV-2 qRT-PCR assays in a Kenyan laboratory to support the national COVID-19 rapid response teams

SANTHE is an Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) flagship programme funded by the Science for Africa Foundation through the DELTAS Africa programme; the Gates Foundation; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.

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