Affiliated Institution and location: Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos.

Dr. Rebecca Oziohu Omosimua is a research scientist at the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria with a background in Cell and Molecular Biology. Rebecca has a passion to develop safe, effective, quality and affordable vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics against both infectious and non-communicable diseases. Her ultimate goal is to improve Nigeria’s response in the case of epidemic or pandemic outbreaks by building capacity for self-sufficient vaccine manufacture and therapeutic antibody research and development in Nigeria.

She is currently utilizing bioinformatics and synthetic biology tools to design and develop quality vaccine candidates against COVID-19 and Lassa fever and is also developing capacity to produce Lassa antibodies as therapeutics and diagnostics in her lab.

Orcid number: 0000-0001-8877-0357