Martin Okitwi

Martin Okitwi is a laboratory Scientist with extensive experience in malaria parasite phenotyping and genotyping, and a MSc. Bioinformatics finalist at the ACE-Bioinformatics and Data Sciences, Makerere University. He is interested in understanding antimalarial drug resistance mechanisms and patterns in Uganda, using ex-vivo and bioinformatics/genomics approaches, with a focus on artemisinin partial resistance. He an established author and a current beneficiary of a US-NIH-Fogarty International Center malaria training grant.