Ammar Danazumi, BSc
Graduate student
Ammar was a student in the Master's in Biotechnology course at the Warsaw University of Technology. He was awarded a studentship in the Łukasiewicz Programme from NAWA Poland.
Ammar joined the lab to pursue a Master's thesis on FAST protein and its interactions, as well as to further develop his interests and projects on combating tropical infectious diseases.
In the winter semester 2021/2022, Ammar participated in Erasmus exchange in Groningen, NL.
Ammar won a competitive studentship for the year 2022/2023 in the BioLAB programme administered by Fulbright Poland which allows talented MSc or PhD students from Poland to spend a year working in a US laboratory. Ammar was offered the BioLAB studentship to join Engin Özkan lab at the University of Chicago, USA.
In 2022, Ammar took up PhD studies in cryoEM at KAUST.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. (2014-2018)
Scientific Experiences
- Internship at Institute for Agricultural Research, Zaria.
- Bachelor Thesis: Evaluation of the effect of T. occidentalis leaf extract combined with ascorbic acid on body weight, relative liver weight and hemoglobin concentration of 2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine induced anaemic mice.
Scientific Interests
- Molecular Biology
- Structural Biology
- Neglected Tropical diseases
- Bioinformatics
Hobbies
- Travelling
- Writing
- Football