Clement Adebamowo

UICC welcomes Ulrika Årehed Kågström as the new President, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu as President-elect and the new Board! We look forward to their leadership in advancing global cancer control and addressing inequities in care. @DrZSB @ulrikaarehed uicc.org/announcements/…

Congratulations @DrZSB Indeed a big win for Nigeria and the world!

Congratulations on your election as President-elect of UICC🎈🎀🥳 uicc.org/announcements/…

Absolutely honored for this and your longstanding support to our work. As well as your globally recognized contribution in cancer research and clean data . Both of which translate to closing the gap along the cancer continuum. @for_cbr @adebamowo @teekayowo

I encourage all my colleagues to vote for me as a capable professional for UICC President-Elect - @DrZSB @adebamowo #CancerCare #Cancer #OncoDaily #Oncology #UICC oncodaily.com/url/141753.html

Fogarty Director @kathleen_neuzil addressed our Advisory Board at her first in-person meeting and caught them up on recent activities including recent a visit to Nairobi, Kenya, and attending her first #Fogarty #GlobalHealth Fellows & Scholars/LAUNCH orientation.

Earlier today at our board meeting, Fogarty Director Kathleen Neuzil informally welcomed new board members Clement Adebamowo (@ummedschool), Chris Beyrer (@DukeGHI), Ben Chi (@unc_som) and Julie Parsonnet (@StanfordMed). We look forward to working with them!

“I’ve built a career without a big golden grant. Here’s how.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

1/ In 1997, 20 volunteers in Buffalo, NY donated blood for what was billed as "the world's biggest science project." Little did they know, one of them would become the cornerstone of modern genetics. 🔗: undark.org/2024/07/09/inf…

Just finished reviewing several hundred applications for a very selective PhD program (3% acceptance rate). I’d like to share a few tips on how to write a strong research statement and avoid common mistakes. First, the sad reality: we receive many statements that seem to be written by ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT to refine your writing is fine, but overrelying on it is a recipe for failure, because ChatGPT produces just average outputs. If you’re applying for a selective program, you don’t want to be average, you want to stand out. So: Tip 1: Be unique, show what unique contribution you can bring. Many candidates focus solely on how a PhD would advance their career. This is a mistake. You don’t have to talk only about your interests but also about ours. The trick is to align your interests with those of the institution. You have to argue why you would be an added value for the institution. Tip 2: Show how you would benefit from the program AND how the institution would benefit from you. Many applicants write impersonal statements that could be (and probably are) submitted to many institutions. This is another common mistake. If you want to work with us, show us why. Name specific faculty members you wish to collaborate with and reach out to them before applying. But don’t send impersonal emails to dozens of professors: we appreciate genuine interest from prospective students, but we don’t like to be spammed. Tip 3: Explicitly name potential supervisors and contact them beforehand. But don’t spam Many candidates write super long and detailed research projects, while others write just a few vague lines about their research interests. Neither is optimal. Your project is likely to change a lot during your PhD, so there’s no point in writing a detailed research project. On the other hand, we’d like to see that you have an idea of the open problems in the field and that you have a strategy to address them. Tip 4: Focus on one important research question and give us an idea of how you plan to address it. I hope this is useful. Feel free to ask questions. Good luck with your application!

Eating traditional Nigeria diet is healthy. But the growing trend to eat outside the home threatens that. The healthiest vegetables (cruciferous vegetables, fresh, not overcooked) are essentially missing from Nigerian diet - cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-…

Elite researchers in China say they had ‘no choice’ but to commit misconduct Anonymous interviewees say they engaged in unethical behaviour to protect their jobs — although others say study presents an overly negative view. @SmritiMallapaty writes @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

To enable progress in data science health research in Africa, ethical oversight can be provided using existing legal and ethical frameworks as new tools are rapidly being developed. Read the article by Dr. @adebamowo et al.: nejm.ai/3KgBHu8

With profound sadness, CITI Program announces Dr. Paul Braunschweiger’s passing on May 19, 2024. Affectionately known as Dr. B, Dr. Braunschweiger co-founded CITI Program to meet the crucial need for training in the ethical conduct of research. loom.ly/uDLWFcE

Ethical Oversight of Data Science Health Research in Africa | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/AI… African countries must engage with AI & DS to reduce bias, data inequity, & derive benefits without exposing their citizens to harm.@NIH @for_cbr @UMmedschool @Fogarty_NIH @DSI_Africa

UMSOM's Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MsC, ScD, and Clement Adebamowo's, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, study finding genetic link to high-risk HPV infections. ow.ly/vwvc50Rp42T

ANNOUNCEMENT 3 - Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model The launch of Nigeria’s first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through a partnership between @awarritech, @DataDotOrg, @NITDANigeria and @NCAIRNigeria. The LLM will be trained on 5 low resource languages and accented english to ensure stronger language representation in existing datasets for development of Artificial Intelligence solutions. The project will also be supported by over 7,000 fellows from the @3MTTNigeria programme. #NAIS

A TRIBUTE Jimi SOLANKE transforms simple things into the extraordinary! With facial, aural, and infectious laughter, there is nobody like Uncle Jimi SOLANKE! youtu.be/tRTXaG8Viyc?si…

Wishing Dr. Neuzil the best in her new position! She will be greatly missed, but we appreciate all she has done to elevate the School of Medicine in the global health sphere.

"Didier Raoult and his institute found fame during the pandemic." Then critics dug in. science.org/content/articl…