Samuel Kariuki

Kenya Kenya

Teaching Assistant at University of Eldoret (UoE)

Education

I am a superbly motivated gentleman enthusiastic to bring a positive change to the society. I have been keen to advance and promote good health for humanity: the reason I chose to pursue a career in human health research. To support this, I have a Bachelors degree in Microbiology and a masters in Molecular Biology human health option. I am currently pursuing a PhD in life sciences. I am mainly interested in the sexual transmission of HIV-1 which accounts for 70-80% of all the HIV-1 transmissions globally. The most effective strategy to contain transmission would be to interrupt this virus at mucosal region before establishment. This is because there are establishment bottlenecks experi...