Husband and Wife Use KGI’s PhD Program as a Stepping Stone to Improve Healthcare in Their Home Country of Nigeria
Uchechukwu “Uche” Anyaduba, PhD ’24, and her husband, Tochukwu “Dubem” Anyaduba, PhD ’21, are pursuing different niches within the life sciences. The duo shares a common goal: to use their industry experiences and the knowledge they’ve gained in Keck Graduate Institute (KGI)’s Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Applied Life Sciences program to deliver more effective and affordable healthcare to their home country of Nigeria.
For Uche, this means utilizing her expertise in business and science to improve healthcare systems through clinical outcomes and data analytics. Dubem plans to employ his bioengineering skills to develop more cost-effective medical diagnostic equipment so that the diagnosis of life-threatening conditions such as malaria is accessible to every citizen of Nigeria, even those living in extreme poverty.
Dubem received his bachelor’s in Microbiology in Nigeria, followed by a master’s in Biotechnology in the UK. For eight years, he worked for Sysmex Partec GmbH, a German company specializing in flow cytometry, a technique used to monitor the lymphocyte count of people living with HIV.
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