Biography

Dr. Noel Gahamanyi is a Rwandese and Lecturer of Microbiology in the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda. Dr. Gahamanyi is a Microbiologist with interest in Bacterial pathogens and their drug- resistance potentials. During his Ph.D. program, Dr. Gahamanyi worked on ‘‘Assessing the molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of thermophilic Campylobacter species from human and animal feces in South Korea and Tanzania’’. He got his Ph.D. from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. Dr. Gahamanyi holds a MSc in Microbiology from Jain University (India) and BSc in Biotechnology from the former National University of Rwanda. Before embarking on Ph.D. journey, Dr. Gahamanyi served as a Lecturer of Microbiology-related courses at Catholic University of Rwanda where he also served as Head of Biology Department and then as the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology (2013-2018). In Research, Dr. Gahamanyi has nine (09) published papers and one book chapter all related to Microbiology. Five of these are indexed in PubMed. He also served as a reviewer for six (06) international journals. Dr. Gahamanyi is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Young East African Health Research Scientists (YEARS) forum affiliated to the East African Health Research Commission. Dr. Gahamanyi received a number of awards including the Best Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) Postgraduate student Research Award for the academic year 2020-21 and the First-class with gold medal after completing MSc in Microbiology at top of the class (2013).