Miss Kelebogile Nkwadipo is a former University of the Free State student, where she obtained her BSc degree in Biochemistry and Genetics in the year 2018. After completing her degree, she was granted the opportunity to work at a microbiology food laboratory as a laboratory analyst and completed a laboratory quality management system training ISO17025 course. Thereafter, in 2021, through the Free State Department of Health, she was delighted to join as an intern, in the Next Generation Sequencing Unit and Division of Virology, University of Free State, under Prof. Martin Nyaga. She assisted with extensive laboratory work, recruitment of patients and collection of samples for research studies performed at the UFS-NGS Unit. Currently Miss Nkwadipo is employed at the TEST IT LAB as an analyst and maintains affiliation to the UFS-NGS Unit’s research initiatives.