Tulio de Oliveira
Brazilian professor of bioinformatics / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian, Portuguese, and South African permanent resident professor of bioinformatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and associate professor of global health at the University of Washington. He has studied outbreaks of chikungunya, dengue, hepatitis B and C, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, yellow fever and Zika. During the COVID-19 pandemic he led the team that confirmed the discovery of the Beta variant of the COVID-19 virus in 2020 and the Omicron variant in 2021.
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Born | Brazil |
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Spouse | Dr. Astrid de Oliveira (maiden name Treffry-Goatley) |
Children | Kiara, Tiago and Rafael |
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Awards | Batho Pele Award (2022) |
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Doctoral students | Sikhulile Moyo |
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.