Prof. Collen Masimirembwa

President and Chief Scientific Officer Prof. Collen Masimirembwa is a Biomedical Pharmacologist with research expertise in Pharmaceutical and Genomic Medicine. He graduated with a BSc Hons degree in Biochemistry and a DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

President and Chief Scientific Officer Prof. Collen Masimirembwa is a Biomedical Pharmacologist with research expertise in Pharmaceutical and Genomic Medicine. He graduated with a BSc Hons degree in Biochemistry and a DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Uppsala University, he spent 10 years working as a Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical company in Sweden before establishing the African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology. Collen has made importantdiscoveries in genomics that are of clinical relevance to the safe and efficacious use of medicines in African populations. As a research leader, he has attracted major research grants from funding organizations and pharmaceutical industry. Collen has always combined innovative research with capacity building with respect to infrastructure and skilled manpower.For his contributions to Science he has won many national and international awards, fellowship to academies of science and professorships at many prestigious universities.