Dr. Abdulhakim Abamecha

Dr. Abdulhakim Abamecha, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of tropical and infectious diseases and medical microbiology.  Currently, he is the director of the School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.

Research Field, Expertise: His educational background is a PhD in Tropical and Infectious Diseases and an MSc in Medical Microbiology. He is an expert on infectious disease epidemiology (molecular), clinical trials, antimicrobial drug resistance, and diagnostic tool validation.

Research Interests and Methods: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Clinical Trials (drugs and vaccines), Genomics, Transcriptomics, molecular assays for genotyping (including design), cell culture, drug assays, flow cytometry, assessing novel screening and detection assays