Cedrik Ngongang

Dr. Cedrik Ngongang is the senior director of medical geneticist at the n-Lorem Foundation. Prior to joining n-Lorem, Dr. Ngongang was a scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Ngongang’s clinical and research experience in genetic medicine spans various aspects of the diagnostics and management of rare disorders, including clinical assessment of genomic variants, elucidation of the genetic basis of Mendelian phenotypes in individuals from ancestrally diverse backgrounds, and application of machine learning approaches to the clinical and genomic diagnosis.

He received his M.D. from the University of Yaoundé 1 Faculty of Medicine, and his Master of Medicine in medical genetics from the University of Cape Town. He completed his postdoctoral training in molecular genetics at the National Institutes of Health, following his board-certification in clinical genetics in South Africa.