Kevin Downard

Kevin Downard masanin kimiyya ne ɗan Birtaniya-Ostiraliya wanda bincikensa ya ƙware wajen inganta martanin da ake bayarwa ga cututtuka masu yaɗuwa ta hanyar amfani da fasahar auna yawan ƙwayoyin cuta da sauran hanyoyin nazarin ƙwayoyin cuta a rayuwa da kimiyyar likitanci. Downard yana da ƙwarewa sama da shekaru 35 a fannin kuma ya rubuta mujallu 150 na marubutan kimiyya waɗanda aka yi nazari a kansu, da littattafai biyu ciki har da littafin karatu  na Royal Society of Chemistry da kuma littafi na farko da aka buga kan rawar da fasahar auna yawan ƙwayoyin cuta ke takawa a nazarin hulɗar furotin. 

 Ilimi 
Downard ya sami digiri na Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Adelaide a Kudancin Australia inda ya sami kyautar Donald Stranks.

 Ayyuka 
Babban abin da ya mayar da hankali ga bincikensa shine ya dakatar da tasirin cututtukan cututtukani da ke haifar da ƙwayoyin cuta. Fiye da shekaru 25, ya jagoranci ci gaban sabon nau'in nau'in, bioinformatics da hanyoyin taimakon kwamfuta don nuna alamun ƙwayoyin cuta na numfashi kuma shine jagora na duniya a wannan fagen. Ya haɓaka hanyoyin yin nau'i, subtype,  nazarin zuriya, antigenicity,  da juyin halitta  na Kwayar cutar mura da sauran cututtukan numfashi, ciki har da SARS CoV-2, [4] kuma ya gano kuma yayi bincike kan tushen kwayoyin sabbin masu hana kwayar cuta, don taimakawa wajen kama tasirin cututtuken cututtukani a kan lafiyar ɗan adam. Gidan gwaje-gwajensa ya jagoranci martani na Ostiraliya ga kwayar cutar SARS-CoV2 tare da mass spectrometry tun daga shekarar 2020.

 Daraja da sauran ayyuka 
Downard ya sami karbuwa a duniya saboda bincikensa bayan ya sami kyaututtuka daga duka al'ummomin Amurka (ASMS 1999) da Burtaniya (2016). Ya sami tallafi na kasa da kasa guda hudu daga Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Australiya da Japan Society for the Promotion of Science . Ya taru kuma ya jagoranci taron Sir Mark Oliphant na biyu a kan Proteomics a shekara ta 2003 da kuma taron mafi girma na Australiya a shekara ta 2009  bayan ya yi aiki a Kwamitin Zartarwa na MS na tsawon shekaru 7. Ya kasance mai aiki sosai wajen inganta muhimmancin bincike a fagen sa da tarihin mass spectrometry da masu gabatarwa wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Moran daga Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Australia a shekara ta 2006. Ayyukansa an nuna su a cikin mujallu na kimiyya a cikin kimiyyar nazari, albarkatun yanar gizo na kimiyya, da kuma kafofin watsa labarai ciki har da ganawa da Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Australiya (ABC Australia). Ya yi aiki a cikin fannoni daban-daban na kimiyya, kwamitin kwararru da kwamitocin al'umma. Ya rike mukamin Darakta na Shirin Biotechnology kusan kusan shekaru goma kuma ya kasance memba mai kafa zartarwa da kuma mai ba da shawara ga Cibiyar Kula da Cututtukan Cututtuka da Tsaro ta Sydney. Ya yi aiki tare da abokan hulɗa na masana'antu a fannin kimiyyar halittu da kuma fannin kimiyya.

 Manazarta 
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