Joan Chick
Research Assistant Covenant University, Nigeria Email: joan.chickpgs@stu.cu.edu.ng
VALIDATE Role: Network Affiliate
Research Keywords: Malaria, TB, Vaccine, Immunoinformatics
Biography: Joan Amban Chick is a doctoral candidate in Bioinformatics at Covenant University in Nigeria with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and an M.Sc. in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. She is also a research assistant at the Covenant Applied Informatics and Communication Africa Centre of Excellence (CApIC-ACE), a World Bank centre that focuses on developing new treatment and control methods for malaria, prostate cancer, and breast cancer, as well as building a federated genomics cloud infrastructure for informatics-based research in Africa. Joan's doctoral research lies at the intersection of machine learning and immuno-informatics. She is presently developing a multitask computational model for vaccine candidate prediction against infectious pathogens. Her technical skills include designing and assessing multiepitope vaccines, performing immunological tests, and proficiency in R, Python, and Linux. She has conducted research on the computational design, expression, and characterisation of a multi-epitope, multi-stage Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate and her dedication to a One Health approach to disease prevention is evidenced by her contribution to a study on the computational design of a lipoprotein-based multiepitope vaccine against human and livestock tuberculosis. Through her research, she hopes to make a substantial contribution to the advancement of vaccine research and the training of the next generation of African vaccine researchers.
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