Ambroise Wonkam

Ambroise Wonkam
Alma mater
  • University of Cape Town Department of Medicine Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Alan Pifer Research Award (2020) Edit this on Wikidata
Position heldpresident (2019–) Edit this on Wikidata

Ambroise Wonkam is a Cameroonian medical doctor and professor of medical genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research is in sickle cell disease, the genetics of congenital hearing impairment, and ethics in human genetics. He is the current president of the African Society of Human Genetics.

Biography

Education

Ambroise Wonkam was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, where he received his MD in 1995.[1][2] In 1997, he went to the University of Geneva to train in cell biology before specializing in medical genetics.[2] He received his doctorate in Medical Sciences in the Department of Morphology on the topic Burden of sickle cell disease and prenatal genetic diagnosis in Cameroon (French: Fardeau de la drépanocytose et diagnostic génétique prénatal au Cameroun ).[3]

Career

Wonkam is a medical practitioner in African and European countries. He joined the University of Cape Town as faculty in 2009, where he studied sickle cell disease and why its severity and mortality varied between individuals.[2] He became professor of medical genetics at the Faculty of Medicine where he was the deputy dean of research and director of the Genetic Medicine of African Populations (GeneMAP) program, which he founded in 2017.[2][4] He became president of the African Society of Human Genetics in 2019. In 2021, he was named director of genetics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[4]

Wonkam is spearheading the Three Million African Genomes project, which aims to sequence the DNA of three million Africans in order to make up for systemic shortfalls in the study of the human genetic diversity of Africans.[5] He has proposed that the project be funded by African countries.[6] In 2022, he was a guest editor for special issues of Nature calling for the decolonization and elimination of racism in science.[7]

Distinctions

  • Prix Denber-Pinard (2003) for best thesis, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine[8]
  • Clinical Genetics Society International Award (2014), British Society of Genetic Medicine[8]
  • Alan Pifer Award (2021), University of Cape Town[8]

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Invité Africa - Ambroise Wonkam: "Séquencer plus de personnes d'origine africaine a major source for l'Afrique "". RFI (in French). 24 March 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Lane, Richard (2022). "Ambroise Wonkam: making human genomics truly equitable". The Lancet. 399 (10339). Elsevier BV: 1932. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00880-7. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 35598615.
  3. ^ Noaye, Yvan (8 January 2021). "Dr Ambroise Wonkam, le génie africain qui utilise la génétique (ADN) pour soigner les maladies les plus mortelles du continent - Genie d'afrique" (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "World Renowned Geneticist and Sickle Cell Disease Expert Takes Helm of Genetic Medicine Department at Johns Hopkins". Johns Hopkins Medicine Newsroom. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  5. ^ Wonkam, Ambroise (10 February 2021). "Sequence three million genomes across Africa". Nature. 590 (7845). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 209–211. Bibcode:2021Natur.590..209W. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00313-7. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 9979155. PMID 33568829.
  6. ^ "Invité Afrique - Ambroise Wonkam: "Séquencer plus de personnes d'origine africaine a un intérêt majeur pour l'Afrique"". RFI (in French). 24 March 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  7. ^ Nobles, Melissa; Womack, Chad; Wonkam, Ambroise; Wathuti, Elizabeth (8 June 2022). "Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature's guest editors speak". Nature. 606 (7913). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 225–227. Bibcode:2022Natur.606..225N. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-01527-z. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 35676434.
  8. ^ a b c "Ambroise Wonkam, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Genetic Medicine". Johns Hopkins Medicine. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2022.

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