Joseph Ndung’u
Department of Neglected Tropical Disease Programme
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
Switzerland
Biography
Professor Joseph Ndung’u is the Head of FIND’s Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) programme. He has a degree in veterinary medicine and surgery (BVM) from the University of Nairobi, and a PhD on the immunopathology of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT or sleeping sickness) from the University of Glasgow’s Veterinary School in Scotland. He became a Visiting Professor of the University in 2001, and has held a similar position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. In 2013, he became a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE).
Research Interest
Infectious disease's like Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer, Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases (STH) and Dengue.
Publications
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Picado, A., & Ndung'u, J. (2017). Elimination of sleeping sickness in Uganda could be jeopardised by conflict in South Sudan. The Lancet Global Health, 5(1), e28-e29.
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Lumbala, C., Bessell, P. R., Lutumba, P., Baloji, S., Biéler, S., & Ndung'u, J. M. (2017). Performance of the SD BIOLINE® HAT rapid test in various diagnostic algorithms for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PloS one, 12(7), e0180555.
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Besuschio, S. A., Murcia, M. L., Benatar, A. F., Monnerat, S., Mata, I. C., de Puig, A. P., ... & Mori, Y. (2017). Analytical sensitivity and specificity of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) kit prototype for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in human blood samples. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005779.
