Dr Enyong is an internationally renowned entomologist from Cameroon. He has contributed immensely to the research related to Onchocerciasis, Loaisis and Podoconiosis. He is a co-founder of the Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases & Environment based at the University of Buea. For over three decades, together with his colleague Professor Samuel Wanji, he has conducted research trials in their laboratory based in Buea and has been instrumental in the mapping of Loiaisis and Onchocerciasis in many African countries through the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) before it ended in 2016.
During his undergraduate studies at the University of Paris, Dr Enyong became interested in entomology and went on to undertake his PhD in medical and veterinary entomology, carrying out his field work in Cameroon. He began working as a researcher at the Medical Research Station in Kumba, Cameroon, and institution he went on to become Director of until his retirement. During his retirement he went on to work with the World Health Organization on a number of Mass Drug Administration programme.
The work in the laboratory in Buea has seen both Dr Enyong and Professor Wanji develop their pan-filarial rodent model, which was a breakthrough in small animal models for chemotherapeutic and immunological studies.