UNIBEN Alumnus Heads Genomic research

The government of the United States of America has named a Nigerian born researcher, tutored at the University Of Benin as the director of its new medical research center for genomics and health disparities. He is the person of Dr Charles N Rotimi. This historic announcement was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm by the Nigerian Community ,African Academics and Intellectuals in the U.S .

Dr. Charles Rotimi is a biochemist and a genetic epidemiologist in the College of Medicine, Howard University in Washington, DC. He received his PhD and MPH FROM the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Rotimi is a Professor in the College of Medicine and the director of the National Human Genome Center at Howard University. His research focuses on understanding the patterns and determinants of common complex diseases including diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in populations of the African Diaspora. Rotimi uses genetic epidemiology models to test whether high rates of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity among African Americans are the result of exposure to higher levels of environmental risk factors, increased genetic susceptibility, or an interaction between adverse environments and deleterious genes. He is the president of the African Society of Human Genetics crotimi@howard.edu.