Program Director, NIMR
Rosemary Audu, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Virology at Lead City University, Ibadan and a director of research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). She is currently the director of NIMR Biobank and a mentor to several young scientists in NIMR including trainees in the Emory Nigeria HIV Research Training Program (EN-RTP). Some of her mentees have innovated molecular diagnostic assays for endemic viral infections in Nigeria. She is the EN-RTP director in NIMR and a co-director of the journal club program.
She has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS for over a decade and is currently expanding her scope to include emerging and re-emerging viral diseases in the tropics. She has a strong passion and commitment to standards hence, she led two national reference laboratories (Center for Human Virology and Genomics, and Center for Tuberculosis Research) in NIMR to obtain international accreditation to ISO 1589:2012. Therefore, both Centers are the first public health laboratories in Nigeria to attain such feat. Furthermore, she prepared the Center for Human Virology and Genomics to be listed as a WHO prequalification laboratory for in-vitro diagnostics making it the first center in West Africa to obtain this status. Rosemary is a past Fogarty fellow and a Heymann fellow of IANPHI leadership academy.