Giorgio Sirugo, MD, PhD, is a medical geneticist whose primary research focuses on genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. Dr. Sirugo has extensive expertise in this study area, having spent many years as a Research Clinician at the MRC (UK) Unit in The Gambia, West Africa. He created and directed the first DNA bank in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by the MRC in 2000. As a co-investigator, he participated in the Wellcome–Trust Consortium for genome-wide association studies of tuberculosis and malaria. He is a senior clinician-scientist at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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