Grants and Scholarship

List of Grants and Scholarship

 

Origin of research funds

Title of research project or program

Duration

Money allocated

NIH

South African Principal Investigator

 

DREAM

2022-2024

USD 38,000

 

South African Medical Research Council

Principal Investigator

 

Self-initiated Research grant

2022-2024

R 200,000 per annum

South African Medical Research Council

Research Supervisor

 

Clinician-Researcher Development Programme (CRP).

2021

R 500,000 per annum

UP Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) grant

Principal Investigator

 

A hybrid learning approach to improve final-year medical students’ understanding of and proficiency in health ethics at the University of Pretoria 

2020

R 25,000

National Research Foundation -Thuthuka grant

Research Supervisor

 

Effects of in Utero HIV Exposure on Infant Immune Activation, Function and Regulation

2020 - 2022

R 550,000

National Health Laboratory Services Research Trust

Principal Investigator

 

Assessment of factors impacting on fetal and infant immunity and growth in HIV and antiretroviral-exposed uninfected children.

01/03/2018-28/02/2022

R 499,649

UP Research Development Programme   

Principal Investigator

                 

Assessment of factors impacting on fetal and infant immunity and growth in HIV and antiretroviral-exposed uninfected children.

01/03/2018-28/02/2019

R 50,000

NIH:  1R01HD094719-01          

Co-investigator  

                               

Mechanisms controlling the persistence of infectious HIV reservoirs in children.

08/01/2017–06/30/2022

USD 3,176,556

International AIDS Society – CIPHER grant     

Co-investigator   

                                         

Assessment of factors impacting on fetal and infant immunity and growth in HIV and antiretroviral-exposed uninfected children.

01/11/2018-31/10/2019

USD 149,793.82

NIAID: 1R01AI108366-01      

Sub-investigator 

                                

Unintended and Intended Implications of HIV Cure: A Social and Ethical Analysis.

06/15/2013-06/15/2017

 

National Research Foundation -Thuthuka grant

Principal Investigator

 

Effect of cotrimoxazole on markers of immune activation in HIV-infected patients on ART.

01/01/2015-12/31/2017

R 378,000

National Health Laboratory Services Research Trust

Principal Investigator

 

The effect of cotrimoxazole on markers of immune activation in HIV-infected patients on highly-active antiretroviral therapy.

01/01/2015-12/31/2017

R 500,000

National Research Foundation -Infrastructure funding instruments (NEP/NNEP)

Principal Investigator

 

Suspension Bead Array

2013/14-2020

R 1,100,000

Delegation of the European Union to South Africa

Sub-investigator                                  

 

Drug Resistance Surveillance & Treatment Monitoring Network for the Public Sector HIV Antiretroviral Treatment Programme in the Free State.

01/31/2008-12/31/2014

Euro 8M

NHLS Research Trust: Development grant

Interactions of bedaquiline, clofazimine and antiretrovarial agents individually and in combination with human platelets and neutrophils in vitro.

 

2018

R 100 000

NHLS Research Trust: Development grant

Investigating the relationship between cigarette smoking and immune markers of platelet activation in HIV-positive participants.

2020

R 100 000

NHLS Research Trust: Development grant

Fibroblast growth factor 21 and growth and differentiation factor 15 as potential systemic biomarkers of mitochondrial toxicity and associations with disease severity and immune suppression in HIV-1infected patients in Tshwane, South Africa.

 

2020

R 100 000

Poliomyelitis Research Foundation

PhD Scholarship 2021

 

Determine and compare the immunological profiles and clinical outcomes by means of flow cytometric and cytokine analysis of both individuals living with HIV and HIV-uninfected patients admitted with COVID-19 to hospital in Tshwane.

 

2021,2022,2023

R 55 000 p/a

NHLS Research Trust: Development grant

Fibroblast growth factor 21 and growth and differentiation factor 15 as potential systemic biomarkers of mitochondrial toxicity and associations with disease severity and immune suppression in HIV-1infected patients in Tshwane, South Africa.

 

2022

R 100 000

UP Postgraduate Masters Research bursary

The impact of inflammatory and metabolic breastmilk profiles associated with maternal HIV on infant growth and development

 

2022

R 18 000

Poliomyelitis Research Foundation

The impact of inflammatory and metabolic breastmilk profiles associated with maternal HIV on infant growth and development

 

2023

R 40 000

UP Postgraduate Masters Research renewal bursary

The impact of inflammatory and metabolic breastmilk profiles associated with maternal HIV on infant growth and development

 

2023

R 20 000

National Research Foundation

The impact of inflammatory and metabolic breastmilk profiles associated with maternal HIV on infant growth and development

 

2023

 R 112 158 

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