Posted on October 07, 2022
The department spend a morning at the Future Africa campus to discuss research strategy and funding. We were privileged to have Prof Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Health Sciences, give us a presentation of scoping reviews, and Ms...
Posted on September 01, 2022
Miss Caitlin Mason is a first-year MSc student in the Department of Physiology was awarded a second place in the Masters section at the 2022 Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty Day
Posted on September 01, 2022
Ms Charlise Basson, an MSc student from the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences presented at the UP Postgraduate Research Day on 26 August 2022.
Posted on November 14, 2020
South Africa has the highest levels of diabetes-related mortality on the African continent. In 2019, 89 800 of the 366 200 diabetes-related deaths in Africa occurred in South Africa.
Posted on October 23, 2020
Globally, 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year, and about nine million lose their lives to the disease annually. But next-generation DNA technologies and sequencing are heralding a change to the outlook of the disease, and the rapid development and roll-out of DNA tests could...
Posted on April 25, 2020
DNA Day on 25 April is an opportunity to recognise scientific accomplishments and acknowledge that the vast amount of knowledge available today will lead to tomorrow’s discoveries – which will ultimately contribute to our health and well-being, especially in the fight against cancer.
Posted on October 30, 2019
Statistics show that one in 28 women in South Africa may develop breast cancer in their life. This represents approximately 25% of all cancers in women. Globally, more than two million new cases of breast cancer were reported in 2018.
Posted on August 22, 2019
In the eighth interview of our #WomenofUP series for Women’s Month, we profile Professor Alisa Phulukdaree, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology
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