Dr Njoku is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cancer Diagnostics and Machine Learning at the University of Manchester and an Academic Futures Scholar in Evidence-Based Health Care at the University of Oxford.  He is also an Eve Appeal / North West Cancer Research Fellow and an honorary Clinical Oncology Specialist Registrar at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Njoku recently completed a Doctorate (PhD) in Cancer Sciences at the University of Manchester on a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) funded Clinical Research Fellowship and as a recipient of the Wellcome Trust Manchester Translational Informatics Scholarship. For this work, He was awarded the Edgar Gentilli Prize by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the United Kingdom for the best piece of original work on the cause, nature, recognition and treatment of any form of cancer of the female genital tract.  He was also a recipient of a Sir William Gilliatt Award, for the highest scoring abstract and top plenary oral presentation (First prize) at the RCOG World Congress, 2023. Other accolades include the UK Academy of Medical Sciences Prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the annual clinical academics national pre-doctoral research competition and the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (BGCS) Prize for the Best Short Oral Presentation at the BGCS national annual scientific meeting, 2024. 

Dr Njoku completed his post-graduate training in general internal medicine in the Yorkshire and Humber deanery, attaining membership (by examination) of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP), following which, he was awarded the prestigious National Institute for Health Research Academic Clinical Fellowship in Oncology. He has a Master's in Public health and Health Services Research from Newcastle University, funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commision, and a Post-graduate Certificate in Health Research from the University of Leeds.