Endashaw Bekele

Endashaw Bekele is a distinguished academic and researcher at Addis Ababa University, active from 1995 to 2023. He has also held affiliations with the Federal Ministry of Health - Ethiopia, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Addis Ababa Center of Human Genetic Diversity, among others.

His research spans genetics, biotechnology, and their applications to Ethiopian agriculture and public health. Key areas include genetic characterization of crops, nutritional profiling of indigenous plants, and the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia. His work on stem rust resistance in wheat and the nutritional potential of noug (an Ethiopian oilseed crop) has been published in journals like Nature Communications and BMC Genomic Data.

The five highlighted publications reflect his focus on plant genetics and medical genetics, with studies on coffee chloroplast divergence (2007), grass pea variation (2003), Ethiopian lentil diversity (2011), and the influential African Genome Variation Project (2015). Recent work in 2017 explored FMO2 polymorphisms linked to tuberculosis in Ethiopian populations.

Bekele has attracted significant funding from global sponsors including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Medical Research Council, with a publication record spanning 90 citations across 42 works and an H-index of 33. His research has been supported by institutions like the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

His work has strong international and regional collaboration, with research locations across Ethiopia and Eritrea. With 90.7% co-authorship linkage and a high activity level, Bekele remains a central figure in advancing Ethiopian genetic research.