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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Research Translation Through Arts and Science
There are no apparent artistic elements in our work, which are highly scientific, quantitative and subjected
to high levels of rigor. This precludes us from being creative, although a creative representation of our work,
outside the boundaries of reality, would be most welcome under the right circumstances.
Dr Candice Hendricks, a paediatric haematologist, Laurah Guvi, an MSc student, is shown here
received her PhD (Medical Immunology) in 2025. maintaining HEK293T cells used to propagate
She investigated the impact of HIV and antiretroviral HIV-1C molecular clones in order to study the
agents (ARVs) on umbilical cord blood-derived impact of HIV-1C on hematopoietic stem and
haematopoieitic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC)s. progenitor cells (HSPCs).
Odireleng Mosuwe, MSc student, is shown here
analysing transcriptomic (RNA-seq) data from
NESHIE (Neonatal Encephalopathy with Suspected
Dineo Raphela, MSc student, is shown here Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy) samples, using
preparing protein samples extracted from mouse a robust bioinformatics pipeline to extract detailed
tissue for Western blot quantification of proteins information that will contribute to understanding the
involved in obesity and cancer. pathophysiology of NESHIE.
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