Jean Claude Makangara Cigolo, is a medical doctor from University of Kinshasa and research genomics scientist at the Genomics Pathogens Laboratory within Institut national de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB). He is also research assistant in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Kinshasa, in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Jean Claude, is currently involved in a PhD project in Virology and Bioinformatics at the University of Bern in Switzerland in the Experimental Virology group at Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK), he is working on the Development and evaluation on novel metagenomics approaches for virus discovery and surveillance at human-animal interface. Jean Claude has experience in emerging pathogens disease and he is working on One-Health novel laboratory tools to address pandemic preparedness challenges in limited resources countries.