Pr.  Rose Gana Fomban Leké, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde, Cameroon

Rose Leke is Professor of Immunology and Parasitology. Until her retirement in March 2013, she was Head of Department at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Biotechnology Centre at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Medical Research Institute and as Vice President of the Scientific Committee of Cameroon First Lady’s Research Centre in Yaounde. She is a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences and Doctor Honoris Causa (DSc) from the University of Ghana where she was invited as the 2014 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecturer.

Her research interest is in the immunology of parasitic infections, particularly malaria. She has a keen interest in global health issues, particularly about health systems strengthening. With grants from the NIAID, she and collaborators in Georgetown University and at the University of Hawaii have developed expertise in studying malaria during pregnancy, particularly placenta malaria, publishing many papers and training many young scientists for their MD, MSc and PhD degrees, post-doctoral fellows.