Ambroise Wonkam
Ambroise Wonkam | |
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| Born | Yaoundé, Cameroon |
| Occupation(s) | doctor and professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Yaoundé I University of Geneva |
| Thesis | Burden of sickle cell disease and prenatal genetic diagnosis in Cameroon |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | medical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Cape Town |
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| Notable works | Three Million African Genomes project |
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.