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The Faculty of Health Science’s Department of Nuclear Medicine has entered a collaboration with the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), to develop a new breakthrough treatment for cancer patients.
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Gender is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of health and life expectancy. For men, unfortunately, this is not good news. On average, across the globe, men die six years earlier than their female counterparts.
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Prof Annie Joubert, a professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been involved with research focused on the treatment of breast and cervical cancer for a number of years and has gained national and international recognition in this field.
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The title of Prof Millar’s lecture was ‘A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy of brain/body dialogues’. He spoke about peptide hormones that regulate all aspects of body functions, including growth, energy metabolism and appetite, water and salt balance, stress and reproduction. These hormones are the target for a vast array of drugs that have found application in treating a wide range of...
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Cancer affects the lives of thousands of people every day. Cancer cells that break off from a primary tumour and enter the bloodstream or lymph vessels can reach nearly all tissues of the body.
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“There are more than 6 million HIV+ people living in our region, and some would say we are the 3rd most obese nation in the world,” says Prof Michael Pepper, Director of the recently launched Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine (ICMM) at the University of Pretoria (UP).
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