Ms. Angela Mbele is a first year M.MedSc student at the  University of the Free State Next generation sequencing (UFS-NGS) Unit and registered within the Division of Virology under the supervision of Prof. Martin Nyaga and co-supervised by Dr. Emmanuel Ogunbayo. Her current research project is on clinical metagenomics in respiratory cases of unestablished aetiologies from the national reference laboratory in the Free State province, South Africa.

Ms. Mbele attained her B.Sc Biomedical science undergraduate degree (University of South Africa) in 2020 and a B.Sc Hons degree (Sefako Makgatho Health science University) in 2023. Her research was based on the Investigation of Mycoplasma genitalium in Men (MSM) having sex with men in Ga Rankuwa, Pretoria.