Dr. Mustapha Umar Imam holds a PhD in molecular biotechnology (2013) from the Universiti Putra Malaysia. He spent about two years at Zhengzhou University in China as an Associate Professor and now works as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Medical Research and Training, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. He has worked extensively in nutrigenomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics. He has also worked on the genomics of diabetes and cancer and used gene-specific knockout animal models to study the transgenerational risk of diabetes. He has been named among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford/Elsevier publications for four consecutive years (2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022).