Prof Shabir Madhi, Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) has been appointed the new Dean of Wits University’s Faculty of Health Sciences for the next five years – effective from 1 January 2021.
- Meet Dr Charissa Naidoo, one of the latest recipients of research grants by L'Oréal South Africa announced recently – she is an SAMRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Clinical Mycobacteriology and Epidemiology (CLIME) at Stellenbosch University.
- “When a young scientist is promoted, there is new blood in the research community.” These are the words of Professor Janan Dietrich, who has completed 3 years of postdoctoral fellowship within the Health Systems Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and recently promoted to Associate Professor within the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).
- The announcement by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Wednesday night in a webinar that the first tranche of the vaccine doses will arrive in South Africa on 1 February, was long-awaited and welcomed by South Africans.
- Most advanced clinical trials testing broadly neutralizing antibody against HIV demonstrate efficacy against sensitive strains