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Robert 'R Kay' Kamanzi

Robert Kamanzi, better known as R Kay, is the most decorated music producer in East Africa. He is a composer, a songwriter, an actor, a singe,r a music director and an accomplished music entrepreneur. Over the last 12 years, he has worked tirelessly to revolutionize the position of East African music and bringing it to the forefront of music from other regions in Africa.

Being one of the most sought-after producers in the region he has worked with the best of the best. His list of artists that he has worked with include Bobby Wine, Blue 3, Kidum, Lady Jay Dee, Ray C, Professor Jay, Massamba, Shanel, Jimmy Gait, Oliver Mtikudzi, Mercy Masika, Roughtone, Suzanna Owiyo, Prezzo and Sanna just to name a few.

His productions have won every award in the region such as Channel O (SA), Kisima Awards (KE), Kilimanjaro Awards (TZ), PAM Awards (UG), CHAT Awards (KE) and MTV MAMA Awards (AFRICA). The first Kenyan artist to ever win an MTV Award at the MAMAs 2008 (the biggest award in Africa) was singer Wahu for the love song ‘Sweet Love’ produced by R Kay.

Kay R. Jamison

  • Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

  • A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  • By: Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
  • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
  • Unabridged

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, creating a language for madness that was new and arresting....

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Rob Kay
Laboratory

Biographical Sketch

  • 1966 - 1972 University College London
  • 1969: BSc in Biochemistry with First Class Honours
  • 1973: PhD on nuclear envelopes; supervisor - Irving Johnston
  • 1972 - 1973 EMBO postdoc in Freiburg, Germany with Werner Franke.
  • 1973 - 1984 Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories London (ICRF, now part of CRUK). With John Cairns and Julian Gross
  • 1984 - 2018 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a group leader.
  • 2019 - present MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Emeritus.

Prizes/Honours:

  • 1993 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholar
  • 1997 - Elected EMBO Member (European Molecular Biology Organization)
  • 2020 - Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (suspended)

Main Publications since 2005

  • Kay, R.R. (2021) Macropinocytosis: Biology and mechanisms. Cells & Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdev.2021.203713
  • Srivastava, N., Traynor, D., Piel, M., Kabla, A.J. & Kay, R.R. (2020). Pressure sensing through Piezo channels controls whether cells migrate with blebs or pseudopods. Proc. Natl. Acad.

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