Research helps to identify South Africa’s lost children

Posted on June 08, 2015

The doctoral research of Dr Nanette Briers from the Forensic Anthropology Research Centre (FARC) at the University of Pretoria (UP) will help to identify the remains of unknown children found in South Africa.

Innovative prostheses to restore hearing

Posted on May 28, 2015

Prof Mashudu Tshifularo, Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at UP, believes that ‘innovate or perish’ are words to live by when it comes to clinical procedures, teaching, research and medical devices.

Discovery leads to patenting and international demand

Posted on March 02, 2015

The recent UP discovery of a novel compound holds so much promise that some of the world’s leading scientists and pharmaceutical companies want to get involved in its future development.