Dr.Hezekiah Kamuzora is the first East African who was nominated for Nobel Prise while working at the New England Allergy and Immunology Centre in the United States in 1983. Dr Kamuzora was nominated for the 1983 prize for work done between 1972 and 1975 during his PhD degree studies in chemistry at Britain's Cambridge University. The research centered on abnormalities in the blood chemical, hemoglobin, which is used to transport oxygen. The research was born out of earlier observations in Tanzania that an inordinate number of women died of blood loss during childbirth, as well as the fact that many Tanzanians suffer from sickle cell anemia. He was recognized as one of the leading scientists of that time.
He was born in Tanzania.