Research Group

Shey Robert Adamu is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Buea in Cameroon. He obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium which was done in collaboration with the University of Buea in December 2018.

His PhD thesis focused on the characterization of a protein from the parasite Onchocerca volvulus as a diagnostic or drug target for onchocerciasis. In the course of his PhD, he developed an interest in reverse vaccinology and the rational development of control tools for infectious diseases. This new interest featured in his PhD thesis as he used computational tools to design an epitope-based chimeric vaccine for onchocerciasis.

At the moment, he just completed a postdoctoral fellowship; working on the characterization of a chimeric vaccine candidate he designed during his PhD studies. His postdoctoral project was conducted at the Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM) Gosselies in Belgium and the Biotechnology Unit of the University of Buea where he is also involved in the technical guidance of MSc research students.

Robert currently leads a group of eight PhD and MSc students interested in computational vaccinology and their research work have been presented at numerous conferences in Africa, Europe and the USA.

He has a number of publications in international, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include vaccine target discovery, vaccine candidate design, vaccine characterization, preclinical studies and proof-of-concept clinical research.

He is a member of many professional networks including the Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.