Professor Theresa Marié Rossouw

Email address: [email protected]

Tel: +27 (0)12 319 2626

Theresa Marié Rossouw is a professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB) cum laude from Stellenbosch University. She then completed two masters’ degrees, both cum laude (Master’s in Philosophy – Biomedical Ethics – Stellenbosch University, and Master’s in Public Health – Epidemiology and Biostatistics – UP) and two doctoral degrees (PhD Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, and PhD Immunology, UP). She worked as Clinical Head, HIV Clinic at Pretoria Academic Hospital from 2005, also HIV consultant for Tshwane district from 2014. In 2016 she transitioned into research heading the Immunopathology Laboratory in the Department of Immunology at UP. She is specifically interested in HIV-associated drug resistance and systemic immune activation as well as the impact of COVID-19 on people with immunodeficiency. She is a member of the World Health Organization’s Research and Innovation Working Group, HIVResNet, as well as various scientific committees, and is the current President of the South African Immunology Society. She also has a keen interest in ethics. She is the co-chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria and the immediate past chairperson of the REC of the Human Sciences Research Council. She is an NRF-rated scientist and was awarded a silver medal by the South African Medical Research Council in 2023.  

ORCiD:  http://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-922X

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-rossouw-6a8b121b/

Professor Helen C. Steel

Email address: [email protected]

Tel: 012 319 2977 

Helen Steel has dedicated 29 years of her career as a medical scientist to the field of immunology at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests have predominantly focused on infectious and inflammatory diseases. Over the years, she has contributed to or authored 94 publications in international, peer-reviewed journals, covering a wide range of topics including tuberculosis, pneumonia, inflammatory lung diseases, cancer, and HIV. More recently, she has extended her research into SARS-CoV-2.In 2020, she earned the title of extraordinary professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Pretoria. Alongside her academic duties, which include lecturing undergraduate students and mentoring postgraduate students, she also serves on the Editorial Board for both Mediators of Inflammation and Frontiers in Immunology.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/000-0001-5899-4472

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-steel-7266b12b/