Claude Kwe Yinda is a Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Virology, NIH/NIAID’s Rocky Mountains Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biochemistry from the University of Buea in Cameroon. He later earned his PhD from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium, studying Viral Metagenomics. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories from 2018 to 2022 and Research Fellow in the same lab. His research focuses on uncovering and characterizing novel and emerging viruses, investigating their potential to cause human disease, and understanding the factors that drive cross-species transmission.