John Mukisa, PhD

Mukisa John, MD is a Postdoc fellow with a PhD in Bioinformatics from the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda where he also obtained his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and postgraduate training in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. Currently, John continues to pursue his NIH Fogarty sponsored PhD study training with a focus on understanding the Imputation performance and Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor genotypes among children with varying degrees of HIV disease progression in African cohorts from Uganda, and Botswana. John has previously trained in molecular human genetics and bioinformatics techniques at the prestigious Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) in Houston, Texas, USA in 2019 -2020. He has also done bioinformatics in different genetics research labs under the mentorship Prof. Graeme Mardon and Prof. Neil Hanchard at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA in 2019/20. John is passionate about the translation of medical bioinformatics into the clinical bedside.