Videlis Nduba, MD, PhD

Centre Director, Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research (CRDR), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Dr. Videlis Nduba, MD, PhD, is a centre director at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, in Nairobi, Kenya. As a medical officer from Kenya and epidemiologist trained at the school of public health at the University of Washington, Seattle, he started his career working in HIV and eventually transitioned to respiratory diseases. He has 18 years of clinical trials experience and has conducted multiple trials in tuberculosis vaccines, TB drug trials, sickle cell disease, and malaria drug trials.

Publications

  1. Njagi, LN, Kaguthi, G, Mecha, JO, Hawn, TR, Nduba, V. Attenuated tuberculin skin test responses associated with Mycobacterium intracellulare sputum colonization in an adolescent TB prevalence survey in Western Kenya. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2024;147 :102514. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2024.102514. PubMed PMID:38723342 PubMed Central PMC11168861.
  2. White, T, Selvarajah, V, Wolfhagen-Sand, F, Svangård, N, Mohankumar, G, Fenici, P et al.. Prediction of cardiovascular risk factors from retinal fundus photographs: Validation of a deep learning algorithm in a prospective non-interventional study in Kenya. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2024;26 (7):2722-2731. doi: 10.1111/dom.15587. PubMed PMID:38618987 .
  3. Horne, D, Nduba, V, Njagi, L, Murithi, W, Mwongera, Z, Logioia, G et al.. Tuberculosis Infectiousness is Associated with Distinct Clinical and Inflammatory Profiles. Res Sq. 2024; :. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3722244/v1. PubMed PMID:38328225 PubMed Central PMC10849670.
  4. Ndunda, JM, Sitati, J, Inziani, M, Achieng, RL, Achieng, J, Kennedy, L et al.. Accreditation of a molecular HIV diagnostic laboratory following the Strengthening Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation (SLMTA)-Stepwise Laboratory Quality Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) approach in Kenya: an implementation science study. Pan Afr Med J. 2023;46 :60. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2023.46.60.39549. PubMed PMID:38223876 PubMed Central PMC10787130.
  5. Njagi, LN, Mecha, JO, Mureithi, MW, Otieno, LE, Nduba, V. Towards pharmacogenomics-guided tuberculosis (TB) therapy: N-acetyltransferase-2 genotypes among TB-infected Kenyans of mixed ethnicity. BMC Med Genomics. 2024;17 (1):14. doi: 10.1186/s12920-023-01788-1. PubMed PMID:38184575 PubMed Central PMC10770971.
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