Nkemngo Francis Nongley

Dr. Nkemngo Francis is a junior group leader at the Centre for Infection Biology and Tropical Health (CIBITH), University of Buea and a research scientist at the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Cameroon. His research focuses on interrogating the population biology, evolutionary genomics and characterizing the functional relevance of novel candidate markers/alleles of antimalarial drug, diagnostic and malaria vaccine resistance in Central Africa across time, geography, control interventions and changing climate in order to strengthen molecular surveillance, inform actionable decision-making and support local malaria elimination.

I am motivated to be part of MESA to widen my knowledge scope and communicate malaria research to a wider audience while engaging in career development and networking opportunities as a budding researcher.