Tulio de Oliveira
Tulio de Oliveira | |
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Born | Brazil |
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Awards | Batho Pele Award (2022) |
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Doctoral students | Sikhulile Moyo |
Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian, Portuguese, and South African permanent resident professor of
He gained fellowships to the University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the University of Edinburgh and in 2015 was appointed professor. In 2017, he founded the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) and in 2021 he founded the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), to sequence and trace epidemics.
Early life
De Oliveira was born in Brazil.[1] He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.[2] He completed his MSc and PhD at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal.[2]
Career
During his career he has studied outbreaks of
From 2004 to 2006 he was a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Oxford.
During the
Recognition and awards
De Oliveira was included in a list of ten scientists with important roles in scientific developments in 2021 compiled by the scientific journal Nature.[1] De Oliveira was included in a list of the leader of genomics surveillance as one of the ten breakthrough technologies in 2022 compiled by the scientific journal MIT_Technology_Review.[10] He received the Gold Medal Award from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) in 2022.[11] In the same year, for his contributions to society, he received the Batho Pele Award from the Government of South Africa.[12]
Further reading
- "Why genomic sequencing is crucial in COVID-19 response". Regional Office for Africa. WHO. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
External links
- Tulio de Oliveira publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ORCID 0000-0002-3027-5254
- "Full transcript: Tulio de Oliveira on "Face the Nation," December 12, 2021". www.cbsnews.com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- "Here's what Omicron can tell us about how COVID-19 variants are discovered". World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
References
- ^ a b c d e Nordling, Linda (2021). "Nature's 10 Ten people who helped shape science in 2021: A bioinformatician in South Africa helped to identify troubling variants of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2". Nature. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "News - Renowned bioinformatician joins forces with..." www.sun.ac.za. 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "Tulio de Oliveira | University of Washington - Department of Global Health". globalhealth.washington.edu. University of Washington. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ a b "How South African Researchers Identified the Omicron Variant of COVID". The New Yorker. 30 November 2021. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4648-1702-1.
- S2CID 244842008. Archived from the originalon 30 December 2021.
- ^ "How South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction". ABC17NEWS. C. N. N. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ Hurst, Luke (29 November 2021). "Omicron variant poses 'very high' global risk, WHO says". euronews. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- ^ Zubașcu, Florin (2 December 2021). "'Do not blame South Africa' for the Omicron variant". Science|Business. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ Nordling, Linda (2022). "How tracking coronavirus variants will prepare us for the next global public health threat". MIT. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "SAMRC rolls out the red carpet for leading medical scientists and researchers". www.samrc.ac.za. Archived from the original on 3 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ Gumede, Compiled by Nosipho (28 March 2022). "UKZN researchers scoop the 2022 National Batho Pele Excellence Awards". Witness. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.