Seydou Doumbia is the Dean of the Medical School and Dentistry of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB) and Director of the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC).
Prof. Doumbia holds an MD degree from Bamako and a PhD in Epidemiology from Tulane University, New Orleans in the USA.

Prof. Doumbia is the Program Director of several research consortia including the West Africa International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), the Tropical Medicine Research Center (TMRC) Program on Neglected Tropical Infectious Diseases.
Since 2003, Professor Doumbia has been involved in bioinformatics/genomics capacity building through the training of more than 50 Africans junior scientists on state-of-art bioinformatics and functional genomics with funding from WHO/TDR and NIH/NIAID. These different initiatives led to the creation of the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and a Master’s level training program in Bioinformatics funded by NIH/NIAID and supported by H3-Africa Bioinformatics consortium.


Professor Doumbia is Principal Director or Co-PI of three research training grants including the West African Center of Excellence for Global Health Bioinformatics providing support and training in Public Health and Bioinformatics.
Prof. Doumbia is currently developing a joint molecular/genomic medicine-training program with the University of Thiès in Senegal in collaboration with Tulane University.