Posted on February 10, 2016
Dr Salome Abbott has been collaborating with an international team of researchers to gather comprehensive data on the viral workings of acute lower respiratory infections among HIV-infected children in South Africa.
Posted on February 10, 2016
Professor Tahir Pillay, Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology and Director of the Division of Clinical Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been elected as a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Posted on February 05, 2016
Prof Leo Braack from the Zoonoses Research Unit and the Department of Medical Virology at UP, says that South Africans should be made aware that, in terms of Zika virus, there is no cause for panic in this country.
Posted on February 01, 2016
Students from the Reproductive Biology Laboratory (RBL) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Pretoria (UP) received five of the seven awards in the national research category at the national conference of the Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and...
Posted on January 27, 2016
Two academics from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Prof Mike Sathekge and Dr Flavia Senkubuge, have been appointed as President and Junior Vice-President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA), respectively.
Posted on December 14, 2015
Members of the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) recently met with representatives from Merck Serono and other stakeholders, to discuss opportunities for collaboration with regard to malaria control and...
Posted on December 11, 2015
Three researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) received awards at the GAP sciences awards function that took place at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria on Friday, 20 November 2015.
Posted on December 03, 2015
As their contribution to World Aids Day 2015, staff of the University of Pretoria’s School of Health Care Sciences, in collaboration with various partner organisations, hosted an event at Olievenhoutbosch Clinic on Friday, 27 November 2015.
Posted on December 01, 2015
The Environmental Chemical Pollution and Health (ECPH) Research Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), successfully hosted the first African Conference on the Health Effects of Endocrine Disruptors at the Skukuza Conference Centre in the Kruger National Park.
Posted on November 24, 2015
Ms Tracey Hurrell, a PhD student in the Department of Pharmacology at UP and one of UP's UK Commonwealth Awardees, says that the opportunity to complete part of her studies at one of the leading academic institutions in the world has changed the paradigm of her thinking, research endeavours and...
Posted on November 23, 2015
Prof Riana Bornman is the South African Study Director of the Southern African Prostate Cancer Study (SAPCS) - a project that is shedding light on the scope and impact of prostate cancer in the central to northern regions of SA.
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.
Posted on November 12, 2015
Ms Cyan Brown, currently in her fourth year of the Bachelor of Medicine (MBChB) degree programme at the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Health Sciences, was one of the recipients of the prestigious Abe Bailey Travel Bursary.
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...
Posted on November 04, 2015
The week of 28 October to 3 November has been named Stroke Week, the purpose of which is to raise awareness of the symptoms of stroke.
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.
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'.
Posted on October 26, 2015
Two UP public health academics, Emeritus Professor of Public Health Medicine, Maila John Matjila and Professor Eric Buch, were awarded PHILA Lifetime Achievement awards at the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA)'s annual gala dinner.
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).
Posted on October 15, 2015
Prof Tahir Pillay is hoping that his new interactive mathematics textbook, which is available for use on the Apple iPad, will make life a little easier for students enrolled for the Mathematics for Laboratory Medicine course.
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