Nanfizat Abiket Alamukii

Heam is a First Class (Honours) graduate and scholar of the University of Ibadan, with a Master’s degree in Zoology (Cell Biology and Genetics). Heam is currently a PhD student and a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Zoology, Cell Biology and Genetics at the University of Ibadan. He has acquired experience that has built his research capabilities through his undergraduate and postgraduate research projects and as a PhD Research Person at the Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT) at the University College Hospital (UCH), University of Ibadan. These skills include drafting theses for undergraduate and postgraduate programs; writing research proposals and articles for grants and publications; and laboratory techniques such as DNA extraction, NanoDrop spectrophotometry, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), and bioinformatics. His area of research is the genetics of breast cancer in the Nigerian population, with a proposed PhD topic titled 'Breast Cancer Screening Practices among Nigerian Women and the Potential Use of Genetic Variations in Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines as a Cancer Risk Monitoring Tool'. His future research plans include studying genetic risk factors and the molecular epidemiology of breast cancer, with additional focus on cervical and ovarian cancers among women in Africa. Heam is open to collaborative research.