Prof Colin Stanley
Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Partnerships at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)
Professor Lamech Mwapagha
Chair Conference Scientific Organising Committee, Associate Professor of Medical Biochemistry, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Professor Christian Happi
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics and Director of the Institute of Genomics and Global Health (IGH), Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Richard Banda
World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Namibia
Professor Anna Schuh
Director of Molecular Diagnostics and Honorary Consultant Haematologist, Oxford University NHS Trust
Professor Devanand Sarkar
Professor in the Department of Cellular, Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
Professor Vanessa Hayes
Petre Chair of Prostate Cancer Research in the School of Medical Sciences, heading the Ancestry & Health Genomics Laboratory located within the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC)
Dr. Laina IIyambo
Head of Department Radiation Oncology at the Windhoek Central Hospital
Dr. Harris Onywera
Bioinformatics Data Scientist and workforce development lead, Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative at Africa CDC
Dr. Evelyn Jiagge MD,Ph.D
Director Precision Medicine for African Breast Cancer (PMABC), Assistant Professor in Hematology/Oncology, Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, and University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Kaenda Rukira
Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Medical Oncology at Windhoek Central Hospital
Dr. Georgia Schäfer
Group Leader of the Virology – Emerging Viruses at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Honorary Associate Professor at the Univerisity of (Cape Town, South Africa)
Bren Sambunathan
Chief Commercial and Technology Officer at Oncotech and Chairman and CEO of DiaPearl Group
Dr. Nixon Niyonzima
Head of Research and Training, and the Laboratory Director at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Professor Peter Nyarango
Professor of Medicine and Surgery, and founding Dean University of Namibia School of Medicine
Mr. Rolf-Jürgen (Rolf) Hansen
Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN)
Dr Jerolen Naidoo
Principal researcher within the CSIR Future Production Chemicals cluster
Professor David Wedge
Professor of Cancer Genomics and Data Science, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester
Dr. Jean Claudien Hategekimana
Consultant anatomical pathologist at the Namibia Institute of Pathology
Dr. Mutsa M. Takundwa
Senior researcher at the Synthetic Biology and Precision Medicine Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Dr Paulus Mungeyi
Manager for Biosafety at the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST), Namibia
Dr Mtabeni Jemu
Radiation Oncologist, Namibian Oncology Centre
Dr. Kgomotso Makhaola
Senior Science Manager at African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM)
Dr Mariëtte Rothman
Clinical and Radiation Oncologists at the Namibian Oncology Centre
Dr John Abebrese
Clinician and researcher at the Windhoek Central Hospital in the Department of Surgery
Dr. Nambumba Amundaba
Histopathologist at the Namibia Institute of Pathology
Dr. Xavier Berthet
Head scientific and biomedical research at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Dr. Jialei Zhang
Oncology Product Manager at BGI Europe A/S
Dr. Stefano Cacciatore
Group Leader Bioinformatics Unit, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), (Cape Town-South Africa)
Sahil Tulsi
Genomic Sales specialist at Illumina