Lem Edith Abongwa
University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Biography
Lem is a lecturer in the University of Bamenda-Cameroon. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology in 2019 from Kenyatta University. Her Ph.D. work focused on hepatotoxicity, genetic diversity, and drug-resistant mutation among HIV patients. Her research focus is exploring parasite strain diversity and it impact on disease progression, diagnosis, response to treatment, associated side effects, and the identification of drug resistance mutation. She has a keen interest in the identification and assessment of risk factors that expose communities to infections and possible solutions to prevention and control. She has co-authored several research papers and is also a reviewer in some peer journals. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the African Center of Excellence for Genomics and Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemer’s University in Nigeria. She perceives that life is a process of conscious evolution as female researchers and mentors in science.