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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Name: Happi T. Christian Position/Title: Professor & Director, World Bank funded African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) eRA Commons Username: CTHAPPI Current Working Addresses: 1. Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Redeemers’ University, Ede, Osun Sate, Nigeria. 2. Office of the Director, African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. 3. Office of the Director, Directorate of Research, Innovations and Partnerships (DRIPs), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. Current Employer (s): Redeemers’ University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. EDUCATION/TRAINING INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY Harvard University, School of Public Postdoctoral Fellow 2000-2003 Molecular Biology Health, Boston, MA, USA University of Ibadan, Nigeria PhD 2000 Molecular Parasitology University of Ibadan, Nigeria M.Sc 1995 Molecular Parasitology University of Yaounde, Cameroon B.Sc (Hons) 1992 Biochemistry A. Positions and employments 2017- Director, Directorate of Research, Innovation and Partnerships, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. 2013-2018- Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2012- 2016: Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. 2012- Present: Senior Associate Member, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2011- Present: Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Redeemers’ University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. 2011-Present: Fellow, Exxon-Mobil Corp, USA, Malaria Leadership Programme, Harvard Malaria Initiative, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. 2010-2012: Consultant and Technical Expert, International Atomic Energy Agency, AFRA Programme. 2009-2012: Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Division of Infections and Immunity, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 2009-Present: Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. 2007- present: Adjunct Faculty, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. 2006- Visiting Faculty, Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2004-2009: Research Fellow, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. 2003-2012: Committee member and Temporary advisor, WHO/TDR Transfection Technology Network. 2003-2012: Principal Investigator, Malaria Research Laboratories, IMRAT, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 2002-2013: Visiting Research Scientist, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Springs, MD, USA. 2002-2009: Nigerian National Coordinator, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) RAF/0625/UNDP project Monitoring Drug Resistance to Malaria and Tuberculosis. 2001 to 2005: WHO/TDR Molecular Biologist Consultant, MIM/TDR Antimalarial Drugs Resistance Network in Africa. 2000 to 2003: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. 1997-2000: Junior Research Fellow, Malaria Research Laboratories, PIMRAT, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. B. Honors and Awards. 2016- National Universities Commission Award for the Best Nigerian Academic Researcher in the field of Life Sciences and Medicine. 2015- Vice-Chancellor’s Hero Award, Redeemer’s University 10th Anniversary. 2015- Best Researcher Award, Redeemer’s University 10th Anniversary. 2014-2018 World Bank Grant Award to establish the African Centre of Excellence of Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID). 2 2013-2017 USA, NIH Grant Award to Characterize Fevers of Unknown Origin through Microbial Metagenomics. 2011-2016 Exxon-Mobil Corp. USA, Harvard University Malaria Leadership Fellowship Award (USA). 2011- 2011, Merle A. Sande Health Leadership Award (Accordia Foundation, USA). 2010-2015 USA, NIAID Grant Award to study Host Genetic Factors in Resistance to Lassa fever. 2010-2014 USA, NIH Grant Award to study Host Pathogen Evolution in Lassa fever. 2010- Scholarship to attend the Second Annual Course on Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Global Health, University of Washington Seattle (USA). 2010- Boroughs Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Awards (USA). 2009-2014 USA, NIAID Grant to study the Roles of Protective or Pathogenic B cell Epitopes in Human Lassa Fever. 2009-2014 Wellcome Trust Research Grant Award (UK). 2009- 2011 European Union-Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) Senior Research Fellowship Award (The Hague, Netherlands). 2008- Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee Africa Health Research Organization (AHRO) (Ghana). 2007-2011 NIH/Fogarty International Centre Research Collaboration Grant Award. (NIH, USA). 2007- Turner Biosciences Research Grant Award (USA). 2005-2008 WHO/TDR Plasmodium falciparum Pathogenesis and Applied Genomics Research Grant Award (World Bank/ UNICEF/WHO/TDR). 2005-2006 International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID) Research Grant Award (USA). 2004-2005 Research Award for Microarrays Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum Genome (MR4, USA). 2004 Chair, Molecular Parasitology session, 50th Annual Meeting and Anniversary of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 2003-2006 NIH/Fogarty International Center Research Collaboration Grant Award (NIH, USA). 2000-2003 WHO/TDR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award (World Bank/UNICEF/WHO/TDR). 1999 Award of the Best Postgraduate Student, University of Ibadan (Nigeria). 1998 Wellcome Trust Travel Award to attend the 1st Gordon Conference on Malaria (Oxford, UK). 1995 Award of the Best International Student, University of Ibadan (Nigeria). 1994-1997 Organization of African Unity (OAU), PhD Scholarship Award. 1988-1993 Cameroon Government Scholarship. C. Membership of Learned Society. 1. Member Advisory Board, 2016 World Innovation Summit for Health Conference, Doha, Qatar 2. Member, International Scientific Organizing Committee, 9th Pan-African MIM Conference (Senegal, 2017) 3 3. Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Keystone Symposia Africa (Keystone Symposia USA) 4. Member Scientific Advisory Board, NIH funded BRAINS Project, Harvard University-University of Lagos, Nigeria 5. Member Scientific Advisory Board, NIH funded STAMINA Project, Harvard University-University of Jos, Nigeria 6. Member, Wellcome Trust-CIDRAP Ebola Vaccine Team B (2014) 7.Board Member, African Health Research Organization (AHRO), Ghana 8. Member, USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) International Centers of Infectious Diseases Research (ICIDR) Review Committee. (2014) 9. Member, USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Excellence for Translational Research (CETR) Review Committee and Special Emphasis Panel. (2013). 10. Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT 11. Member Steering Committee H3 Africa Consortium 12. Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Accordia Global Health Foundation, Washington, DC, USA. (2011-2014). 13. Member of the African Academy of Science. (2004-Date) 14. International Scientific Committee Member, 4th Pan-African MIM conference (Cameroon). 15. Member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, UK. (2001-date) 16. Member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, USA. (2000-date) 17. Foundation member, Worldwide Antimalarial drugs Resistance Network [WWARN] (USA). D. Peer-Review. Member of Editorial Board/ Reviewer for Internationally Peer-reviewed Journals including: 1. Acta Tropica (Sweden); 2. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Nigeria); 3. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (USA); 4. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (UK); 5. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (USA); 6. BMC Infectious Diseases (UK); 7. Drug Design, Development and Therapy (USA); 8. Emerging Infectious Diseases (USA); 9. Experimental Parasitology (USA); 10. Genome Biology (UK) 11. Infectious Disease News (USA); 12. International Journal of Parasitology (Australia); 13. Journal of Bacteriology and Parasitology (USA); 14. Journal of Infectious Diseases (USA); 15. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Canada); 16. Journal of Travel Medicine (USA); 17. Lancet Infectious Diseases (UK); 18. Malaria Journal (UK); 4 19. Parasitology Research (Germany); 20. Parasitology International (Japan) 21. Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics (Australia); 22. PLOS Genetics (USA) 23. PLOS Infectious Diseases (USA); 24. PLOS Medicine (USA); 25. PLOS One (USA); 26. Science (USA) 27. The Open Tropical Medicine Journal (USA); 28. The Medical Letter (USA); 29. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (UK); 30. Tropical Medicine and International Health (UK). E. Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (Selected out of >150 in Reverse Chronological Order). 1. Gytis Dudas, Luiz Max Carvalho, Trevor Bedford, Andrew J. Tatem, Guy Baele, Nuno R. Faria, Daniel J. Park, Jason T. Ladner, Armando Arias, Danny Asogun, Filip Bielejec, Sarah L. Caddy, Matthew Cotton, Jonathan D’Ambrozio, Simon Dellicour,