
Hakiimu Kawalya
PhD fellow
Kawalya Hakiimu is a PhD research fellow, passionate about population genomics and omics analysis in general to uncover meaningful insights and advance human disease research. He is currently undertaking a study to characterise alleles and selection signals in Sickle Cell modifier genes across populations funded by NIH. He has done extensive works in Cancer as well as Viral and Structural bioinformatics domains. Additionally, he has strong interest in machine learning, health related Artificial intelligence and networks analysis.