Rate My Professor Francis Agamah

Dr Francis Edem Agamah is a researcher and project coordinator at the DS-I Africa Coordinating Center based at the University of Cape Town. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, an MSc Med in Human Genetics from the University of Cape Town awarded in 2018, and is pursuing or has completed a PhD in Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) at the University of Cape Town. His work is affiliated with the Computational Biology Division in the Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Agamah’s research focuses on computational biology, bioinformatics, multi-omics analysis, systems biology, and computational drug discovery, with applications to malaria, HIV genomics, and other health challenges in Africa. He has contributed to publications including “Computational/in silico methods in drug target and lead prediction” (2020), “Computational approaches for network-based integrative multi-omics analysis” (2022), and “Network-driven analysis of human–Plasmodium falciparum interactome” (2021). In his role as project coordinator, Agamah supports coordination of working groups, partnerships, outreach, research hubs, training programs, and ELSI projects for the DS-I Africa consortium. He maintains a verified academic profile on Google Scholar listing interests in multi-omics, computational biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology.

Agamah has been involved in collaborative research outputs addressing topics such as drug response in pharmacogenomics, artificial intelligence applications in resource-limited settings, and data science for health innovation in Africa. His professional email address at the University of Cape Town is publicly listed in consortium materials and academic directories.