Zané Lombard obtained her PhD in Human Genetics and Bioinformatics in 2008. She is currently a Principal medical scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and Associate professor in the Division of Human Genetics, where she oversees the Research laboratory and is a member of the Research & Development team in the Department at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Before this she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics in the School of Molecular and Cell Biology at Wits. Her research interest areas are genomic medicine and rare diseases. Zané is passionate about promoting science in Africa, and therefore participates in several academic service domains at the university, national and international level, like the Southern African Society for Human Genetics (SASHG) and the H3Africa Consortium.
