Soubeiga Ragna Gnewende Serge Theophile

Serge Theophile Soubeiga is an associate research professor in the Department of Biomedical and Public Health at the Institute for Health Sciences Research (IRSS) in Burkina Faso. Prior to joining IRSS in 2018, he worked as a biologist in the Molecular Biology Laboratory at Saint Camille Hospital from 2013 to 2018. He holds a Master of Science degree in molecular biology and genetics from the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Burkina Faso. He was an ADDRF fellow (cohort 2016) and earned a PhD in molecular biology/virology from the same university. He teaches courses in genomics, genetics, proteomics, and epigenetics at universities in Burkina Faso and supervises students in these fields. His research interests include infectious diseases (mainly HIV, hepatitis viruses, dengue virus, and SARS-CoV-2), antimicrobial resistance, cancer, metabolic disorders, and, more recently, nutriepigenetics and the gut microbiota. Soubeiga is a member of the International AIDS Society, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, and the African Society of Genetics (Burkina Faso section).