Miss Mantombi Maseme is a medical scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) Biobank, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been working in various positions as a medical scientist (microbiology discipline), with experience in routine laboratory diagnostics in line with Quality Management Systems (QMS) of medical laboratories namely ISO 15189 and ISO 9001 within the context of biobanking as well as research positions. These include positions at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) mycobacteriology referral laboratory in Braamfontein mainly stationed in the molecular tuberculosis (TB) testing section, a position at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ (NICD) Special Bacterial Pathogens Reference Laboratory as well as the current position. Mantombi also spent 3 years in laboratory technical support and medical sales where she worked at Hain Lifescience South Africa and Aberrant Medical supplies, respectively. Her career interests are biobanking, infectious disease and drug research as well as bioethics and health systems regulations. She is a PhD candidate in Bioethics and Health Law at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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