Lombard spoke to NPF’s Rare Disease fellows October 17, 2022 about how “Geography Matters in Rare Disease Research.”

Zané Lombard obtained her Ph.D. in Human Genetics in 2008 with her Ph.D. research focusing on a bioinformatics-driven approach to disease-gene discovery. She is currently a principal medical scientist and the team lead of the Research & Development group in the Division of Human Genetics, where the focus is on the implementation of next-generation technology for genetic diagnostics. Before this, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Lombard’s research interests include understanding the role that the human genome plays in conveying risk to complex diseases.