Dr Samson Salifu has a special interest in the application of genomics to profiling species and the development of novel diagnostic tools for diseases in humans and animals. He also has an interest in Training the next generation of scientists.
Dr Salifu is currently a Co-PI for West African Sustainable Leadership and Innovation Training in Bioinformatics Research, a collaborative training project with Prof Ezekiel Adebiyi, Covenant University, Nigeria, and Prof Seydou Doumbia, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali, funded by Fogarty International Centre for Global Health Training in Bioinformatics Research.
He is also a Co-PI for the H3ABioNet – Human, Health and Heredity Africa Bioinformatics Network, a Pan African Bioinformatics network comprising 32 Bioinformatics research groups distributed amongst 15 African countries and 2 partner Institutions based in the USA, to support H3Africa researchers and their projects while developing Bioinformatics capacity within Africa.
