We are excited to announce that the Graduate School, University of Kigali will host Prof Solomon Rotimi from Covenant University, Ota Nigeria. Prof Rotimi is billed to facilitate a three weeks intensive capacity-building workshop for our lecturers in the university. The theme of the workshop is Essentials of Grantsmanship.
Professor Solomon Rotimi is a Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and a visiting consultant at the Directorate of Research and Innovation, National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Nigeria. He is an MPI on the US Department of Defense (DOD) award for the Establishment of an Inclusive Cancer Care Research Equity (iCCaRE) for Black Men Consortium and the applied research director at the World Bank-funded Covenant Applied Informatics and Communication Africa Centre of Excellence (CApIC-ACE).
His research uses a cocktail of genomics, molecular, and bioinformatics tools to understand the contributions of genomics and environmental factors, including pathogens, nutrients, and xenobiotics, to cancer disparity in Blacks. He was a senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Dr. John Carpten’s Lab in the Department of Translational Genomics, Keck School of Medicine, the University of Southern California (USC), up till August 2019. As a Fulbright scholar, he investigated the tumor heterogeneity of prostate cancer in Nigerian men using single-cell genomics. This technology requires a top-notch approach to processing patient biospecimens and analyzing genomic data to achieve a quality outcome.
Prof Solomon is the co-PI for the CaPTC (founded by Dr Folakemi Odedina, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville), where he coordinates research projects on prostate, breast, pancreatic, and hematological cancer across multiple sites in Africa and African PI for the CaPTC’s tissue source sites for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC). This is with the objective of the CaPTC TSSs to accrue prospective high-quality clinically-annotated biospecimens of primary, untreated cancers for multi-omic analysis from West Africa Blacks with cancer diagnosis.
According to Prof. Oniye, Dean Graduate School; ”These workshops ensure that lecturers can stay updated on best practices and trends in grantsmanship positioning themselves as competent and confident grant application writers with requisite capabilities to diversify university’s revenue sources and expand scholarship. At UoK, capacity-building workshops serve as essential platforms for the professional development of lecturers. These workshops often cover a wide range of topics, from innovative teaching techniques to effective assessment strategies, allowing educators to refine their skills and enhance their teaching methodologies. We strive to provide quality higher education programs to match the labour market and we can only accomplish that through consistently empowering our lecturers and members of staff.
