Boghuma Kabisen Titanji Explained

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji
Birth Place:	Yaoundé, Cameroon
Alma Mater:	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine University College London
Workplaces:	Emory University School of Medicine
Awards:	Commonwealth ScholarshipBritish Broadcasting Corporation's list of the "100 Women Changing the World"

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji is a Cameroonian medical doctor and clinical researcher. She is an expert on HIV drug resistant viruses.^[1]

Education and work

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, clinically trained in Cameroon, received her MSc and DTM&H in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2010^[2] and a PhD in Infectious Diseases studying HIV-1 cell-to-cell spread and Antiretroviral therapy drug resistance from University College London in 2014.^[3] Titanji's work focuses on the mechanisms of HIV transmission and antiretroviral drug resistance. In May 2012, she gave a TED Talk on the ethics of medical research in Africa.^[4]

Recognition and awards

• 2012 Titanji was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship^[5]
• 2014: Titanji was named one of the BBC 100 Women for her work on the advancement of ethically sound research^[6]

Selected publications

• Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, Deenan Pillay1, Clare Jolly (May 2017) "Antiretroviral therapy and cell–cell spread of wild-type and drug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus-1", 5 May 2017, Journal of General Virology 98: 821–834, doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000728
• Boghuma Kabisen Titanji Marlen Aasa-Chapman, Deenan Pillay and Clare Jolly (Dec 2013) "Protease inhibitors effectively block cell-to-cell spread of HIV-1 between T cells", Retrovirology. 2013; 10: 161. Published online 2013 Dec 24. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-161

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jolly Lab - Members. UCL. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611221939/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jolly-lab/lab-members. 2016-06-11. dead.
2. The Use of Benznidazole in Treating Chagas' Disease at the Non-vector Transmitted Region : A Literature Review and Study Design (2010). Web.
3. Web site: UCL Jolly Lab Members. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611221939/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jolly-lab/lab-members. 2016-06-11. dead.
4. Web site: The Ethical Riddles In HIV Research. 10 January 2013. Ted Talks.
5. Web site: Scholar gives TED talk of the day. 11 January 2013. Commonwealth Scholarship. https://web.archive.org/web/20181009131952/http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/2013/01/scholar-gives-ted-talk-of-the-day/. 9 October 2018. dead.
6. News: Who are the 100 Women 2014?. 2014-10-26. 2019-02-26. en-GB.