| Group head |
| Prof R Anderson |
| [email protected] |
| 012 319 2425 |
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| A brief description of research activities: | |||
| The research mandate of the Unit is to undertake research with clear clinical/translational objectives into the immunopathogenesis, diagnosis/prognosis, and immunopharmacotherapy of acute and chronic inflammatory disorders of both infective (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, severe pneumococcal diseases, severe sepsis) and non-infective (bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, toxicity of heavy metals in both the environmental and occupational settings) origin, cigarette smoking as a major risk factor for development of respiratory infection and resistance to antibiotics. | |||
Group members
| Name | Position | Qualification(s) | e-mail address |
| Prof R. Anderson | Research Professor | PhD | [email protected] |
| Prof AJ Theron | Senior Researcher | PhD | [email protected] |
| Dr MC Cholo | Senior Researcher | PhD | [email protected] |
| Prof GR Tintinger | Senior Researcher | PhD | [email protected] |
| Dr PWA Meyer | Senior Researcher | PhD | [email protected] |
| Current postgraduate supervision | |||
| PhD: Dr G Nethathe (status: registered with the University of the Witwatersrand for the PhD degree and currently involved with research activities. I am a co-supervisor); | |||
| MSc: Mr A Athanasiadis (status: registered with UP for the MSc degree and currently involved with research activities. I am a co-supervisor); | |||
| Acting in an advisory capacity to several other PhD students [M. Potjo (graduated April 2018), L. Kwofie (about to submit), A. Osman (about to submit), M. Madzime (recently registered) and an MSc student [KG Matapa (about to submit). |
| Reviewing of manuscripts/dissertations/theses | |||
| I receive frequent requests to review manuscripts submitted for possible publication to international biomedical journals, some with high impact factors such as the “European Respiratory Journal” (10.569) and the “Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology” (12.485). I also receive occasional invitations from other universities to act as external examiner for MSc/MMed/PhD dissertations/theses. |
| South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) activities | |||
| A longstanding member of the Core Panel for the evaluation of South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) University-based Extramural Research Units, acting as Chairperson of the Review Panels tasked with undertaking the intensive, on-site 5-year reviews of these Research Units. This involves advance perusal of documentation in relation to adherence of the Unit to its mandate during the period under review, research productivity, community engagement, collaboration etc., as well as the compilation of reports and recommendations for submission to the Executive and Board of the SAMRC. Since 2012-2018, I have acted as Chairperson of every 5-year review of Extramural Research Units (RUs) undertaken by the SAMRC (n=18). The most recent of these are as follows: | |||
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| I believe that my participation in these SAMRC-mandated 5-year reviews of Extramural RUs contributes to the visibility of the UP Faculty of Health Sciences. |
| Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation | |||
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Science and Technology (DST)/National Research Foundation (NRF) Centre of Excellence for TB Research (ongoing). | |||
| Occasional reviewer of NRF rating/re-rating and SA Research Chair applications, as well as research grant applications. |
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Post-graduate students graduated in the past 5 years: |
| Name | Degree | Date of qualification |
| PW Mahasha | PhD | 2014 |
| G Malherbe | PhD | 2014 |
| M. Ally | PhD | 2015 |
| R. Bokaba | MSc | 2017 |
| T.M. Rossouw | PhD | 2017 |
| J.G. Nel | PhD | 2017 |
| National and international collaborations: | |||
| National: | |||
| Prof C Feldman | Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. | ||
| Prof M Tikly | Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. | ||
| International: | |||
| Prof T J Mitchell | Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. | ||
Updated 12/02/2019
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