Webinar alert 🚨 🧬 Cell Modeling and Engineering for Rare Diseases: Tools, Trends, and Opportunities 🧫 📅 Dates: 5, 6, 12 & 13 Nov 2025 🕗 Session Times: 8:00–10:00 AM Eastern (USA) 1:00–3:00 PM UTC 3:00–5:00 PM CAT 🌐 Location: Virtual Register: https://t.co/ZeXZYNjD23

Do you have a PhD and are you looking to advance your career in health and social care? The NIHR Postdoctoral Award covers salary, project costs, & training. Plus, you can dedicate 40% of your time to professional practice. This round offers joint fellowships with @Pfizer_UK

Wednesday is #WorldStrokeDay. You can lower your risk of stroke by: 🚭🍺 Avoiding tobacco & alcohol 🩺 Managing blood pressure, cholesterol & diabetes 🍎 Eating healthy foods 🚴 Staying active More from @WHO: https://t.co/oiazt3VdHY

Applications are now open for our inaugural General Surgery Residency, a @cosecsa-aligned, full-time clinical program with intensive rotations, simulation, research & quality improvement, and leadership training. #ApplytoUGHE: https://t.co/J6Nd6NbMQd

Breathing new life into the fight against tuberculosis, Wits researcher Dr Lindokuhle Ngema is pioneering an inhalable nanomedicine that delivers treatment directly to the lungs — the very place where the bacterium, which causes TB—Mycobacterium tuberculosis—hides and thrives.

🗓️Reminder of the monthly meeting tomorrow ‼️Please note the meeting time has shifted in some regions due to Europe's daylight saving change ⏰10am Eastern/3pm WAT/4pm SAST/5pm EAT

⚠️ 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2024 alone, including thousands of adolescent girls and young women. WHO recommends twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir as a new effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option to protect people at risk of HIV. Know more:

Genetics is transforming lives—but communication is key. Join our webinar to explore how to engage communities, promote understanding, and advocate for justice in genomics. 📅November 12 Register now: https://t.co/mcsm7J0rPQ #ASHG

The Devlin lab is seeking a new postdoctoral researcher to join our group (start date between now and Spring 2026). Chemists and biologists interested in how gut bacteria affect human health are encouraged to apply. More information on our lab website https://t.co/THpMXFuRHL.

The GA4GH Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) and Data Security Work Streams (DSWS) will hold the inaugural meeting of the Data Passports Study Group on 4 November at 14:00 UTC. Add to calendar: https://t.co/wZsI0K0q3s

📢 Calling biomedical researchers & data stewards! Free online course from @Ecraid to help you navigate data stewardship and biomedical data governance 💻 🗓️ Starts 3 Nov 2025 | 16:00 CET 💡 Learn FAIR principles, GDPR, & governance frameworks 🔗 https://t.co/xE86rcJv6d

We are excited to announce that four of our incredible leaders (Dr Michelle Skelton, Dr francis agamah, Shonna Smith and Tanian Natus) will be showcasing and representing our community at AI Expo Africa 2025 this week! The Expo is in its 8th Edition and will take place from the

Call for Applications📢! Are you a PhD student or early postdoc interested in the interaction between the immune system & pathogens? Apply for the #AFRIBOP 2026 symposium! 🗓️: March 16–20, 2026 📍: Stellenbosch, Cape Town 🔗: https://t.co/jNto2T9cAl Deadline: October 31, 2025

Ready to showcase your respiratory infection and genomics research? Submit your abstract for #AIR2026 ✍ Demonstrate the application of #genomics technologies in respiratory biology, and gain feedback from leaders 🫁 ⏰ Abstract deadline: 17 November 📎 https://t.co/4su7v3RDWI

BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN).

Congratulations to South Africa🇿🇦 for becoming the first African country to register the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, Lenacapavir (LEN), a milestone in HIV prevention & health innovation. This breakthrough brings us closer to ending AIDS as a public health threat.

Decades of effort have shown the value of #CommunityEngagement in research, yet adoption remains slow. This webinar series explores why, and how to institutionalise #CommunityEngagement in research from an African perspective. Hear from experts across implementation,

❗️Calling all prospective 2026 MPH/MSc candidates! Don't miss the 31 October deadline for application review 📗 MPH: https://t.co/Rx0xMNybcj 📘 MSc: https://t.co/BzBmLpSfYJ Late applicants interested in applying after the deadline are encouraged to contact epiadmin@uct.ac.za

Applications for a FUNDED, 2 yr Postdoc Research Fellowship in bioinformatics with Dr Caroline Ross, to lead analyses of next generation sequencing datasets to study gene regulation in various human diseases. More info:

📢 Don’t miss Covering The Gaps – The Course You Didn’t Know You Needed! Explore overlooked but crucial topics in genetics: ethics, quality, data sharing & more. 🗓️ Online | Nov 27–28, 2025 💶 €100 | 🎓 15 CME credits ⚠️ Limited spots! 👉 Register now:

Day 1 of the Rare Diseases Workshop in Stellenbosch, with Profs Gilissen and Hoischen @ahoischen @gilissenc @Radboud_Uni @inqababiotec