Press Releases
Cape Town, South Africa | The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill of 2022 was presented in parliament on 31 May 2023 by the National Department of Health before the Portfolio Committee on Health. Yesterday also marked World No Tobacco Day with this year’s theme being “We need food, not tobacco”. The bill which was presented for public comment in May 2018 has gone through various stages in the legislative process of becoming a law since it was first published for public comment in 2018.
Cape Town, South Africa | Recognising outstanding contributions to science, technology, innovation, and engineering in S…
Cape Town, South Africa | A first-for-Africa pathogen genomics platform, led by the SAMRC/SANBI/UWC Bioinformatics Capac…
Melbourne, Australia | On Wednesday, 26 April a new partnership was established between the South African Medical Resear…
The President and Chief Executive Officer of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Professor Glenda Gray wa…
Cape Town, South Africa, - In mid-2020, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) rallied key local partners fr…
Research conducted by a global coalition consisting of more than 1500 researchers and physicians has found that the heal…
Cape Town, South Africa | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), through its Strategic Health Innovation Pa…
Friday 24th March 2023 is World TB Day which is spearheaded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The aim of World TB…
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), through its Research Capacity Development (RCD) division, hosted mor…
South Africa | Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, exposure to HIV per se and antiretroviral therapy (ART) are assu…
Cape Town, South Africa | Professor Rachel Jewkes has been awarded a grant by The Wellcome Trust for Discovery Research…
Pretoria, South Africa | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) would like to congratulate Prof Rabia Johnso…
Cape Town, South Africa | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) held its 9th SAMRC Scientific Merit Awards…
Cape Town and London | A study funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the South African Medical Research Co…
Sustainable and decentralized: Health care in rural areas of the sub-Saharan region. With the aim of being able to ensur…
BGI Group recently donated a DNBSEQ-G400 gene sequencer to the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). This will…
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) through the Europe-Africa Personalised Medicine (EU- Africa PerMed) c…
South Africa | Pregnant mothers living in air pollution hotspots in South Africa risk bearing a child with a congenital…
SAMRC Chief Specialist Scientist invited to lead a commentary to a new Lancet series on breastfeeding which exposes the…
An international study led by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN’s) Professor Dhayendre Moodley, confirmed the safe…