Posted on October 22, 2022
Prof Annie Joubert and her team from the Physiology Department enjoyed a visit from the Gr11 learners from Tyger Valley College.
Posted on October 14, 2022
This BASA Premium Scientific award recognises Prof Paola Wood, from the Department of Physiology, as a premium scientific contributor to the research and profession of biokinetics on both local and international levels.
Posted on October 14, 2022
News summary from the Department of Physiology
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 14, 2022
Prof Fourie Joubert is the first recipient of a Gold Award for achievement in Bioinformatics.
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 May 12, 2022
Prof Cees Van Der Vleuten from Maastricht University joined the Dirisana+ team in South Africa and presented at the Assessment and Curriculum Workshop hosted by Vanessa Steenkamp.
Posted on March 03, 2022
Masters student from the Department of Physiology, Charlise Basson, won first place for Best Oral Presentation in the light microscopy category during the International African Inclusive Microscopy Symposium (AfInMic) - Student Microscopy Symposium 2021, which was hosted on 29 November - 3...
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
Posted on August 01, 2019
Miss Jolene Helena, a PhD student (upgraded from her Master of Science) in the Department of Physiology (Faculty of Health Sciences) under the supervision of Dr AE Mercier, Prof AM Joubert and Dr P Mabeta, recently attended the International Conference on Radiation Biology and Free Radical in...
Posted on May 18, 2019
On 6 April 2019, Ms Elsa Nolte completed her PhD in Human Physiology (University of Pretoria) which was jointly awarded with Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (France) as Docteur (Biologie cellulaire). This is the first dual PhD registration between the Faculty of Health Sciences of the...
Posted on February 04, 2019
The prevalence of cancer is increasing worldwide. Globally, 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year, and approximately nine million lose their lives to cancer annually.
Posted on July 31, 2018
Dr Phulukdaree is the third Next Einstein Forum fellow from the University of Pretoria.
Posted on July 31, 2018
Every year, about 30 Nobel Laureates come together at an international meeting in Lindau, Germany.
Posted on July 27, 2018
A major challenge in cancer research is to find agents that target cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone and unharmed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments can have many undesirable side effects because they damage healthy cells as well.
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