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Name: David Otohinoyi

Year in Program: 3rd year

Department: Genetics (Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Program)

Mentor: Dr. Chindo Hicks

Hometown: Kogi, Nigeria

Education: B.Sc. Biochemistry, Landmark University, Nigeria; M.D, All Saints University, School of Medicine, Dominica

Past Research Experience: Research Coordinator, All Saints University, College of Medicine, Saint Vincent and Grenadines

Current Research Interest: Biomarker and drug target discovery by exploiting cell-cell communication and interaction using NGS multi-omics data.

Career Goal: To keep contributing to cancer research in any academic or industrial setting.

Best Thing about the Program: My program provides a conducive environment for research and career development; also, the opportunity to meet awesome scientists performing amazing research.

What makes you unique?

Aside from been the only me in this existence, I am also a professional musician (piano, bass guitar and acoustic), a graphic designer and a video editor.  

Publications:

  1. Harman, J.C., Otohinoyi, D.A., Reitnauer, J.W., Stowe, A.M., Gidday, J.M., 2021. Differential regulation of cerebral microvascular transcription by single and repetitive hypoxic conditioning. Cond Med 4, 58–68.
  2. Patil, A.R., Dabrowski, D.S., Cotelingam, J., Veillon, D., Ong, M., Dela Cruz, N., Wei, E., Tirupathi, R., Ganti, N., Vanga, P., Otohinoyi, D., 2020. Establishing Adrenocortical Carcinoma Specific Prognostic Genes Signature. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 154, S148–S149. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqaa161.324
  3. Adeyemi, O.S., Olajide, I., Adeyanju, A.A., Awakan, O.J., Otohinoyi, D.A., 2018. Modulation of rat plasma kynurenine level by platinum nanoparticles and likely association with oxidative stress. Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 8, 3364–3367.
  4. Adeyemi, O.S., Otohinoyi, D.A., 2019. Inorganic nanoparticles restrict viability of metastatic breast cancer cells in vitro. Comp Clin Pathol 28, 949–954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-018-2841-z