DrAdebowale Adefolaju Adeyemo

Dr Adeyemo is the Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. His research interests are the genetic epidemiology of complex diseases and genomics of populations of African ancestry. His current projects include: the genetic epidemiology of cardiometabolic disease, genetics of podoconiosis and genetics of complex disease in childhood (including renal/urogenital disorders, orofacial clefts and cardiac malformations). His research uses high throughput genome technology methods to answer biological and clinically relevant questions in human disease. Dr. Adeyemo qualified in medicine at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. After a residency in pediatrics and genetics, he became a faculty member of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Consultant Pediatrician & Geneticist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. He subsequently held fellowships in genetic epidemiology and in medical education. He moved to Howard University, Washington DC in 2003 and then to the NIH in 2008.

Dr. Adeyemo has published widely in genetics and genetic epidemiology. He is the first author of the papers describing: the first genome scan for obesity in an African publication, the first genome-wide linkage analysis for serum lipids in an African population, the first study of genetic structure in West Africans using genome-wide markers and the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) for hypertension and blood pressure in African Americans. His recent work in genetics of childhood disorders include discovery of a novel locus (TNXB) for vesico-ureteric reflux (VUR) using a combination of linkage analysis, exome sequencing and functional studies (PMID 23620400), as well as the discovery of a novel locus (HLA-DQA1) for steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (PMID 25349203). He has served on NIH study sections and special emphasis panels since 2007 and as a grant applications reviewer for several national research organizations.

He is currently co-chair of the H3Africa Genome Analysis Working Group and serves on the H3ABioNet Scientific Advisory Board. He is a co-creator of the NHGRI electronic atlas of birth defects for diverse populations (PMIDs 26838780, 26963283). Further information about Dr. Adeyemo can be found at his ORCID profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-3231