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Dr. Kingsley Ndoh, Clinical Assistant Professor, UW Department of Global Health; Founder and CEO of Hurone AI; Affiliate Member, Vaccines & Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Posted on April 10, 2025.

By Joel Meyers

Dr. Kingsley Ndoh

Dr. Kingsley Ndoh

Thank you, Dr. Ndoh, for joining us today!

Thank you so much for having me really, really a pleasure and an honor.

It is our pleasure and honor for sure. Please tell us a little bit about your background, and what drove you to work in the field of oncology.

I’m originally from Nigeria. I moved to the US 13 years ago and I remember when I was coming here, I actually thought I was coming to Washington DC, I didn’t know that there were 2 Washingtons (laughter). I went to medical school in Nigeria, and just when I graduated, my very close aunt unfortunately passed on from colorectal cancer. She had had abdominal symptoms that were misdiagnosed for a year before it was caught, and unfortunately it was late stage.

So at that time I started thinking, “how can this be solved?” Because I realized that it was just not her, but it was an example of a bigger problem.

That was one of my motivations of coming to the US – to study more and to train. I ended up at the University of Washington doing a master’s in public health, with a concentration in global health. After that, I joined Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center as a fellow, then I joined the Global Oncology Program there and at the time the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center had recently started the global oncology program. They’re one of the pioneers.

And that’s what set me off in my career trajectory.

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