Jean-Jacques Muyembe -Tamfum, MD, PhD

Congo National Institute for Biomedical Research & Kinshasa University Medical School, DRC

Medical doctor, University of Lovanium, Leopoldville(Kinshasa) in 1969 and PhD in virology, University of Louvain, Belgium in 1973. He was appointed full professor of Microbiology at the  Kinshasa University medical school in 1976.

He was appointed dean of the Faculty of Kinshasa University Medical school in 1978.

Since 1998 he is the Director of the National Institute for biomedical Research (INRB) that is the National Public Health Laboratory. He had developed laboratory capacities for the diagnostics  of a range of tropical bacterial and viral diseases such as cholera, monkeypox, influenza and Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever  by immunological and molecular techniques.

His main scientific field of interest is Ebola hemorrhagic fever since 1976 when he investigated this mysterious disease.. Since then, he was involved in several Ebola outbreaks in DRC, Rep of Congo and Gabon as the chairman of the international scientific and technical coordination committee.

He serves as a scientific advisor to WHO in several expert groups and had received  distinguished rewards such as

• The National Gold Medal for his scientific contribution,
• Laureate of J. Vandepitte prize (Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015 for Excellent in Filovirus Research (7^th International Symposium on Filoviruses, Washington, March 25-28, 2015).
• Laureate of Christophe Mérieux Prize, 2015 (Paris) for his for his pioneer’s work on Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Africa..
• Winner of the Royal Society Pfizer Advanced Award, 2015 (London). for his seminal work on Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Africa.
• Honorary International Fellow of ASTMN for his eminent contribution to Ebola Virus Disease studies in Africa.

He is author and co author of more than 100 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals.