Dr Eniyou Cheryll Oriero has a background in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She started her career in Agricultural research where she worked on molecular characterisation, genetic transformation and tissue culture of food crops. Eniyou moved to Medical research when she joined the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia in 2007 and has since been involved in several malaria projects, with particular focus on molecular diagnostics, genotyping and epidemiology of malaria parasites. She obtained her PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2015) and is currently interested in Genomic epidemiology of human non-falciparum malaria parasite species, particularly Plasmodium malariae. Dr Oriero is also coordinating malaria Genomic Surveillance studies, with multiple sites across sub-Saharan Africa.