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Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian, Portuguese and South African permanent resident professor of bioinformatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is an associate professor of global health at the University of Washington.
He has studied outbreaks of chikungunya, dengue, hepatitis B and C, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, yellow fever and Zika. During the COVID-19 pandemic he led the team that confirmed the discovery of the Beta variant of the COVID-19 virus in 2020 and the Omicron variant in 2021. In 2017, he founded the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) and in 2021 he founded the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), to sequence and trace epidemics.
He has gained fellowships to the University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the University of Edinburgh.
Tulio has received multiple awards, including the Batho Pele Platinum award from South African government, the SA Medical Research Council Gold Medal, the Order of Merit Medal from the Portuguese Government and he has been listed twice at Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and one of the most influential in Global Health.
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