Affiliation: The University of Manchester, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

Byron Bitanihirwe is a global health scholar with an interest in translational psychiatry. Before Joining the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, he conducted academic research/training in neurobiology and psychopathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Dr. Akira Sawa), Harvard Medical School (Dr. Tsung-Ung Woo) as well as ETH Zurich, as a doctoral student. He also held a Roche Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He currently serves as project co-lead with Dr. Paulo Lizano on the Manchester-Harvard Global Research Network, focusing on the choroid plexus in relation to psychiatric illness. He is also the principal investigator alongside Dr. Derrick Ssewanyana (University of Toronto) in relation to understanding the implications of antenatal corticosteroid exposure on neurocognitive outcomes in offspring.