Alphaxard Manjurano

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Joint Malaria Programme, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania

Alphaxard is a MalariaGEN Data Fellow based in Moshi, Tanzania. He has a background in biomedical science and holds an Msc in Molecular Biology from the Interuniversity Programme of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium (September 2006). He is currently doing his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK.

Alphaxard has seven years of research experience with five years focused on malaria. Currently, he is working with the Joint Malaria Programme as a research scientist based in Moshi, Tanzania in the field of Molecular biology, Immunology and Genetic Epidemiology. He is also involved in the teaching and supervision of students at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College in Moshi, Tanzania. He has been working with MalariaGEN as a data fellow since September 2006. His participation in several MalariaGEN data clinic workshops has equipped him with data management and analysis skills.

Alphaxard and his colleagues at Joint Malaria Programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are contributing to Consortial Project 1, Consortial Project 2 and Consortial Project 3.