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Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum is the Director General of the DRC’s National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kinshasa Medical school and the inaugural president of the Congolese Academy of Science.He has received several honors including lifetime achievemen awards from the African Union/Africa CDC and the International Symposium on Filoviruses.He is laureate of Mérieux Foundation and Hideo Noguchi Africa Prizes.Recently he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Harvard and the University of Montpellier (France).

Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a congolese Virologist who leads public health emergency responses to Emerging and Re-emerging infectious diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is most widely known for his seminal work on Ebola virus disease, generating the foundation of our understanding of epidemiology, clinical manifestations and response strategies against Ebola outbreaks.

He is globally recognized leader in the fight against Ebola and is a key figure in the World Health Organization efforts to combat infectious diseases. He is co-discoverer of the Ebola virus in 1976 and co-inventor of the monoclonal antibody "?mAb114", approved by FDA as an Ebola treatment under the name "Ebanga" in December 2020.

Once considered an incurable killer disease, Ebola is now a treatable disease.