Prof. Veron Ramsuran graduated with a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, College of Health Sciences. He is also a UK Royal Society and African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Future Leader African Independent Research (FLAIR) Research Fellow, Group Leader at KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Associate Scientist at Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), and a Guest Researcher at the National Cancer Institute at NIH. His research interests include examining the effect host genetics play on HIV and TB disease, and examining the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes, the epicenter of disease associations across the human genome, as determined by genome-wide association studies.