Empowering communities to beat malaria

Posted on November 17, 2015

Dr Taneshka Kruger, from the UP CSMC is very passionate about eliminating malaria in South Africa, and eventually in Africa as a whole and has been involved in research on the subject for a number of years.

UP student receives award for distinguished work at IAEA conference

Posted on November 12, 2015

Dr Kehinde Ololade, a second year MMed student in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pretoria (UP), won the award for distinguished work at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s conference on clinical PET/CT and molecular imaging that was held in Vienna, Austria...

Fighting breast cancer in the laboratory

Posted on November 02, 2015

Prof Annie Joubert and her team at UP are committed to finding novel treatments that target cancer cells specifically, while causing the least possible amount of discomfort to the patient.

Education towards the elimination of malaria

Posted on October 29, 2015

The University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) Student Forum, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education at UP, recently presented a seminar titled 'Education towards malaria elimination'.

MoU paves the way for collaboration towards malaria research and elimination

Posted on October 26, 2015

The University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (China CDC).

UP's Section Sports Medicine: Working to reduce injury rates among athletes

Posted on October 06, 2015

According to staff at UP's Section Sports Medicine, successful injury surveillance could motivate sporting bodies to consider and implement rule changes to improve player safety.

Dr Kritzinger wins the Colgate Postgraduate Research Competition

Posted on September 11, 2015

Dr Dorette Kritzinger of the Department of Odontology, School of Dentistry recently won the Colgate Postgraduate research competition of the SA division of the IADR (International Association for Dental Research).

UP’s Maxillofacial Prosthodontics Project: Restoring faces and changing lives

Posted on August 31, 2015

The Department of Prosthodontics in the School of Dentistry at the University of Pretoria (UP) is one of only a few centres in the country where specialised maxillofacial prosthodontics services are offered to state patients.