Biography

Dr. Ify Aniebo: Biography, Education, Career, Marriage, Net Worth, Achievements, and Controversy

Published

1 year ago

2023/02/28

Sub-editor

By Balogun Kamilu Lekan

Biography

Dr. Ify Aniebo is a molecular geneticist with a special focus on malaria drug resistance.

She was born in 1983. Dr. Ify is 40 years as of 2023.

The award-winning scientist has recorded groundbreaking research in achieving a malaria-free environment.

She is the wife of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the Labor Party at the 2023 general election.

Education

Dr. Ify attended Queen Mary’s University, where she bagged a degree in Medical Genetics before heading to Nottingham University for a second degree in Biomolecular Technology.

She then proceeded to Oxford University for a PhD

Career

While studying for her Ph.D., Dr. Ify was the youngest person, the only black person, and the only Nigerian in the Wellcome-Oxford-WHO unit in Thailand and the Malaria Department at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge.

Dr. Ify has worked to find a cure for malaria, one of Africa’s deadliest diseases. These include conducting Clinical Research in Thailand, conducting Field work along the Thai-Laos Border, and presenting her work at the 21st World Malaria conference in Mae Sot and the Genome conference in Cambridge.

She also collaborated with a research unit in Rwanda, focusing on Plasmodium Falciparum strains from the country. Additionally, she contributed to a charitable cause by distributing parasite-impregnated bed nets to children between the ages of 2 and 8 at a motherless children’s home in Bangkok.

She also has an initiative, Afroscientric, which focuses on bridging the huge gap in young African women getting into the science field.

Additionally, she has a blog that focuses on health issues that young Africans can relate to.