Ikanyeng Dolly Seipone is a National Research Foundation professional development programme (NRF-PDP) Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the South African Research Council (SAMRC) under the mentorship of Prof. Julia Goedecke. Her current research is on the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes in Africans living with HIV, with specific focus on HIV impact on the endocrine system and subsequent metabolic disorders.

Ikanyeng obtained her BSc, BMedSci.Hons (Microbiology) - cum laude, MMedSci. (Medical Microbiology) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Virology (Medical Education Partnership Initiative-MEPI fellow) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Her PhD focused on HIV/TB co-infection to gain better understanding of HIV-1 replication and compartmentalization dynamics on the central nervous system (CNS) of TB co-infected participants, explored diagnostic biomarkers that could be exclusively associated with tuberculous meningitis on people living with HIV and assessed for presence of drug resistance variants in patients with detectable viremia in the CNS.

She has interest on HIV and its associated co-morbidities and has thus worked on several projects that ranged from HIV and its concomitant diseases such as STDs, TB, cancer, and now diabetes.