Aristide Mounchili Njifon is a third-year PhD candidate in Medical Microbiology (Molecular Virology) at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, and a Research Intern at the Virology Department of the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun. With over five years of experience in viral diagnostics, he specializes in next-generation sequencing (NGS) using Oxford Nanopore Technology, viral RNA extraction, bioinformatics pipelines (Minimap2, Kraken2, IQ-TREE), phylogenetic analysis, and molecular detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genetic diversity, resistance mutations (NS5B and Core regions), and recombinant strains. He has authored publications in journals such as IJID Regions, Virus Research, and Archives of Virology, focusing on HCV epidemiology in Cameroon. A member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), Cameroon Microbiology Society (SOCAMI), and Afroscreen network, Aristide has presented at international conferences including COLDA (Ghana/Egypt), IPSN (South Africa), and workshops in Algeria, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. His work bridges genomic data with precision diagnostics for infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.