PhD Candidate Blessing Temitope Adewuyi was awarded as a 2025 Sadler Scholar in Bioethics and ELSI Fellow through the Hastings Center for Bioethics. This award's recipients are advanced doctoral students and early-career bioethics researchers selected through a competitive application process. The Sadler Scholars initiative provides mentoring, workshops, opportunities for feedback on works in progress, and other activities that support professional development and community building. For the 2025-26 cohort, applications were accepted from doctoral students from any field whose bioethics research focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genomics. Congratulations, Blessing! My bioethics research interests: As a Sadler Scholar and CERA Fellow, I aim to explore how ethical frameworks grounded in African value systems can inform ethical governance of human genomics research in Africa and other communities. Africa holds the greatest genetic diversity globally, making it a focus for global human genomics research, yet the regulatory landscape across many African countries remains underdeveloped. The development of governance models for genomics research that reflect African perspectives can guide informed consent, data stewardship, benefit-sharing, and community engagement, ensuring that genomics research in Africa advances science while respecting community rights and dignity. - Blessing Adewuyi
