Adrienne Amuri

About

Adrienne Amuri is Medical biologist and genomic surveillance specialist with experience in sequencing-based outbreak response, pathogen genomics, and laboratory coordination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Experienced in wet lab sequencing workflows, training facilitation, field deployment, and support to genomic surveillance activities for mpox, Ebola virus disease, SARS-CoV-2, and poliovirus. Current academic interests include molecular epidemiology, tropical medicine, infectious disease, virology, clinical microbiology, genomic surveillance, and methodological optimization of sequencing protocols. She is currently pursuing doctoral research linked to immunology and microbiology.

Employment

Employment history is unavailable.

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• Emergence of a Bundibugyo virus variant in the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
  Nature Medicine 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04628-8
  +Save
• Early insights into predicted efficacy of Ebola monoclonal antibodies for the 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-78077-9
  +Save
• Phylogenetic analysis of the 2025 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77542-9
  +Save
• Early insights into viability of Ebola monoclonal antibodies for the 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10270397/v1
  +Save
• Mpox Clade IIb Virus Introduction into Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 2025
  Viruses 2026 DOI: 10.3390/v18010087
  +Save
• First imported cases of MPXV Clade Ib from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Communications Medicine 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-01203-z
  +Save
• Phylogenetic analysis of initial Ebola virus genomes from the 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, September 2025
  2025 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7843810/v1
  +Save
• Clade Ib Mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Clinical and Virological Report of the First Case in Kinshasa, the Capital City
  Viruses 2025 DOI: 10.3390/v17101327
  +Save
• Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Nature Medicine 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03130-3
  +Save
• Co-circulation of Clade Ia and Ib monkeypox virus in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July - August 2024
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.03.24312937
  +Save
• Clade I Mpox virus genomic diversity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018 - 2024: Predominance of Zoonotic Transmission
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.13.24311951
  +Save
• 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective genomic characterisation
  The Lancet Microbe 2024 DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00259-8
  +Save
• Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study
  Nature Microbiology 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01453-4
  +Save
• Early detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2021-2022
  2023 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2701488/v1
  +Save
• The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
  Houriiyah Tegally, James Emmanuel San, Matthew L. Cotten

  +97 more

  • Monika Moir
  • Bryan Tegomoh
  • Gerald Mboowa
  • Darren Patrick Martin
  • Cheryl Baxter
  • +92 more
  Science 2022 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq5358
  +Save
• The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
  medRxiv 2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.17.22273906
  +Save
• A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa
  Science 2021 DOI: 10.1126/science.abj4336
  +Save
• A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa
  medRxiv 2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.12.21257080
  +Save
• Mpox Clade IIb Virus Introduction into Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 2025
  DOI: 10.20944/preprints202511.1811.v1
  +Save