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Our Members

Staff

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Name

Role

Research teams

Professional profile links

 

Professor Michael S. Pepper

Director

NESHIE

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

MSCs

Pharmacogenetics

Genetics and disease

ELSI

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-2380 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-pepper-493b1511/ 

 

Dr Melvin Ambele

Senior Researcher

Obesity and Adipogenesis

Cancer

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-2026

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melvin-ambele-88459917/

 

Dr Chrisna Durandt

Senior Researcher

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

Cancer

 
 

Kinosha Moodley

Laboratory manager

 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3071-8665

www.linkedin.com/in/kinosha-moodley-7b588521b

 

Dr Juanita Mellet

Post-doctoral Fellow

NESHIE

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0109-9853

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanita-mellet-b5790289/ 

 

Jeanne van Rensburg

Project Manager


NESHIE

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3224-0071

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-van-rensburg-b6b32379

 

Current Students

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Name

Research Team

Professional profile links

PhD candidates

 

Candice Herd

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9828-3904

linkedin.com/in/candice-herd-3ab61814b

 

Dr Candice Hendricks

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3817-6605

https://www.linkedin.com/in/candice-laverne-hendricks-3a6826117/

 

Kimberly Peta

Cancer

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4762-2096

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-peta-1937bbbb/

 

Reabetswe Pitere

Obesity and Adipogenesishttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5106-1191
 

Ig Viljoen

ELSI

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8582-6404

 

linkedin.com/in/ignatiusviljoen

 

Emiliene Tata

Pharmacogenetics

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1505-7822

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilieneberinyuy?originalSubdomain=cm

 

Fatima Barmania

Genetics and Disease

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-4377https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-4377

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-barmania-a1201238

 

Marcel Nel

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis 
 

Botle DP Setlai

Cancer 

MSc candidates

 

Thumbiko Teeks Kalua

NESHIE

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6841-1381

 

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/thumbiko-kalua-83404152

 

Megan Ryder

NESHIE

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-3646

https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-ryder-b312b0159/

 

Tsungai Mashingaidze 

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2019-8870

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsungai-vesta-mashingaidze-4190931b2/

 

Priyal Mistry

HSPCs and Haematopoiesis

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-051

https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyal-mistry-82609a1b9/

 

Anastasios Athanasiadis

MSCs

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9481-1941

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasios-athanasiadis-0a1285109

 

Jamie Mollentze

MSCs

orcid.org/0000-0001-9317-1930

www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-mollentze-8a2592131

 

Rachel Giles

MSCs

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8403-6603

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-giles-93a417159/

 

Odette le Grange

Genetics and Disease

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3225-0309

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/odettelegrange/

 

Graeme Ford

Pharmacogenetics

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7809-6095 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/graeme-ford/