About me
Professor Julie Makani is a physician scientist in Tanzania, Principal Investigator in the Sickle Cell Programme at Muhimbili University www.muhas.ac.tz and Sickle Pan African Research Consortium (SPARCO) Clinical Coordinating Centre (CCC), SickleInAfrica http://www.sickleinafrica.org She is Provost Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, UK https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.makani. She is a Science advisor at the Tanzania High Commission in the UK.
She received the 2011 Royal Society Africa Award on genomic research for sickle cell disease http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd17odE1YLs. She is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK, Tutu Leadership www.alinstitute.org, and the Tanzania Academy of Sciences