Vysaul Nyirongo
Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
Vysaul Nyirongo previously the MalariaGEN Data Fellow for Malawi. He as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Leeds, MScs in Biostatistics and Applied Statistics from the University of Hasselt. Vysaul's current interests are Genomic Epidemiology and Statistical Bioinformatics.
Vysaul is coordinating data management for MalariaGEN in Blantyre and leading detailed analysis of the candidate genes on severe malaria in Malawi. The detailed analysis includes looking at clinical sub-phenotypes, multivariate and haplotype analysis.
Vysaul and his colleagues at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme and Blantyre Malaria Project are contributing to Consortial Project 1 and Consortial Project 3. More >>
Read Vysaul's account of dealing with a lack of data on ethnicity for some of the samples collected for the MalariaGEN project. More >>
Relevant external links
- Executive committee member for the Statistical Association of Malawi.
- Honorary Research Fellow at Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool
- Honorary Lecturer in Biostatistics at the College of Medicine, University of Malawi
- Visiting researcher at the University of Leeds