Ruth Nanjala
Ruth is the first DPhil student being awarded with the AfOx Kennedy Trust Prize Studentship. Afox is a cross-university platform based at the University of Oxford with the aim of facilitating equitable and sustainable collaborations between researchers at the University of Oxford and African Universities.
Ruth holds a first-class B.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Pwani University. After her undergraduate study, Ruth pursued her M.Sc. in Bioinformatics at Pwani University, Kenya and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Rewared with a distinction, Ruth master’s research focused on evaluating the accuracy of genotype imputation in the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) region in African populations.
Since then Ruth developed her research interest in MHC genetics, focusing on applying bioinformatics to understand the mechanisms underlying human diseases. Ruth is devevoted to work towards addressing the gap in disease diagnoses, prognosis and treatment and thus improve the health and lives of others.