Prof. Penny Moore is the South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics and Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa.  She is Director of the Antibody Immunity Research Unit (AIRU), an extramural unit of the SA Medical Research Council and holds a joint appointment as Honorary Senior Scientist in Virus-Host Dynamics at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal. She directs a team of more than 15 scientists and 10 postgraduate students who work in the fields of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine discovery, combining Virology, Immunology and Bioinformatics. More recently, the team has expanded to work on Influenza, Cytomegalovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Adenoviruses and Ebola. In the past 20 years, she has contributed towards more than 170 papers, focusing predominantly on neutralizing antibodies and their interplay with evolving viruses, a result of extensive collaborations within South Africa and internationally. She has an H-factor of 47 and holds a NRF B1 rating. She has a very strong focus on mentorship and capacity development and supervises several postgraduate students and post-doctoral fellows within her lab and across other institutes.

Unit Director: Prof Penny Moore
1 Modderfontein Road, Sandringham
Johannesburg, 2131
Tel: 011 386 6362
Mobile number: 0727244501
Email: pennym@nicd.ac.za