The SAMRC is thrilled to announce the appointment of Prof Ntobeko Ntusi as its new President & CEO, effective 1 July 2024. Prof Ntusi will succeed the esteemed Prof Glenda Gray, who has been the SAMRC President for the past ten years.
In the Women’s Month cover issue of Tribe Magazine, Prof Liesl Zühlke, SAMRC Vice President &
#SAWiSA2023
finalist, discusses health equity & her journey in pediatric cardiology.
#WomeninScience
#ScienceCommunication
Dr Ndwandwe published 31 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact factor journals and is the team lead for clinical trial registration and vaccine implementation research projects at Cochrane South Africa, where she shares her vaccinology expertise with colleagues
#WomensMonth2020
One of the SAMRC’s Unit Directors, Prof Wiysonge will be leaving the SAMRC to join the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa as the Regional Adviser for Immunisation and Team Lead for the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Programme.
The SAMRC wishes to congratulate Prof Glenda Gray, President and CEO of the SAMRC on being one of two eminent scientists awarded by The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking to the benefit of society.
SAMRC GO-GETTER
The 35-year-old, Dr Brenda Mahlangu (Pinky) who recently obtained her PhD, joined the SAMRC’s Gender and Health Research Unit as an NRF intern who coordinated a complex randomized controlled trial in 24 schools.
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#EachforEqual
#SAMRCChampionWomen
The National Research Foundation (NRF) has recently awarded Professor Rob Warren, Director of the SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research (CTR) with an A1-rating, a grading which confirms him as a leading international scholar in his field.
Vaccines arrive at
@CAPRISAOfficial
eThekwini Research Clinic. Dr Nigel Garret (Co-PI Sisonke), Dr Nivashnee Naicker (Site PI Sisonke), Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim (Ass. Scientific Director CAPRISA) & Prof Salim Abdool Karim (Co-Chair MAC and Director, CAPRISA) and colleagues
South Africa is one of the few countries that report publicly - in close-to-real time - the numbers of excess deaths as an indicator of the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on mortality.
The HPRU Sisonke team together with partners from AHRI, DOH gave the last dose of J&J vaccine to a HCW in Hlabisa. We salute the team ad they make the three hour journey to Durban.
Keynote Address: Dr Tracy Naledi, Deputy Dean, UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Her address is titled: Mental Health: Resilience and Adaptability in Research-
Over the last two decades, she held technical and management positions in Government and NGO sectors in SA and Botswana
@Athi_Saba
Participants who contracted HIV were not a result of the study. The risk for acquiring HIV was no different whether a participant received the vaccine or the placebo. The vaccine can't cause HIV.
SAMRC WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Dr Tamara Kredo has contributed to national and international research and knowledge translation efforts. She led the development of methods for conducting rapid evidence syntheses on essential medicines for national COVID-19 guidelines.
#WomensMonth2020
Dr Muki Shey is an infectious disease immunologist who serves as a Chief Research Officer at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Medicine, in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Meet
@MRCza
#RCD
scholar Sumaiyah Docrat. Her work includes the generation of economic evidence to support investments in mental health systems in low & middle-income countries across Africa, South America and Asia.
#YouthMonth
#EarlyCareerScientist
.
SAMRC is at the 2nd Presidential Health Summit 2023 taking place under the theme "Strengthening the SA Health Systems towards an integrated & unified health system". SAMRC Vice-President, Prof Liesl Zuhlke, will be presenting on: What are SA & Africa's biggest health threats now.
South Africa’s first Covid-19 Antigen Self-test launched. Today, the Medical Diagnostech (Pty) Ltd announces the launch of South Africa’s first Covid-19 Antigen Self-test with companion mobile phone application, HealthPulse TestNow.
Preliminary findings from studies in South Africa indicate that omicron has a much higher rate of asymptomatic ‘carriage’ than other variants of concern.
The SAMRC is pleased to announce that it has awarded a multi-million rand grant to the SA
#TB
Vaccine Initiative for Phase III of the RePORT Project.
The RePORT project is the largest global network of TB science & translation research.
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To commemorate this year’s Women’s Day, the SAMRC hosted the United States Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken for a Women in Science event at the Pretoria Office.
Prof Charles Wiysonge, Regional Adviser, WHO, discussed research in LMIC’s working group which aims to support research funding for preparedness to future epidemics and pandemics and co-ordinate capacity strengthening efforts among funders.
The SAMRC, through its Grand Challenges South Africa programme, has partnered with Grand Challenges Canada to launch a new Grand Challenge: Health Impacts of Climate Change. For more information on the RFP and to download the relevant documents click:
The SAMRC’s Vice President for Research, Professor Jeffrey Mphahlele has been appointed by the Minister of Health to serve on its newly formed Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines.
SAMRC’S wastewater surveillance team detects declining concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the majority of wastewater treatment plants across their programme.
A first in Africa, this genomics centre has already sequenced 6 genomes, with specimens ranging from patients with drug resistant tuberculosis to breast cancer resistant to radiochemotherapy. This truly is exciting for Universal Health Care!
Spokeperson for the Ministry of Health Dr Lwazi Manzi, pictured here with Counsellor Hou Lihong (Science and Technology, Chinese Embassy in South Africa) attends the launch of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Genomics Centre.
The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation – SAMRC Biomanufacturing Capacity Development Programme is a proactive attempt to give opportunities to young scientists to enter the workforce in Biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
@CSSFFSA
Having joined the SAMRC late last year, Dr Lindo Ndlandla, has grasped the work of RCD very quickly and efficiently. She is doing great work with understanding what is needed to achieve meaningful Monitoring and Evaluation of RCD work.
#WomensMonth2020
#EachforEqual
In 2020, the number of fully unvaccinated children increased by 3.4 million due to
#COVID19
. Without immunization, we risk reversing the
#UHC
gains we have made to date. We cannot afford to drop the ball on immunization. A
#LongLifeForAll
starts with access to vaccines.
Prof Bavesh Kana, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence for biomedical TB research at WITS. He is a Research Fellow at SU. In addition, he is a consultant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute in Cambridge, USA.
Prof Glenda Gray is involved in the fight against COVID-19 as one of SA’s leading scientists as MAC member leading scientific advice towards effectively dealing with the pandemic, but she also joined one of the vaccine trials as a participant.
#WomensMonth2020
#EachforEqual
Professor Gray speaks about her journey to find an HIV vaccine at Rhodes University graduation ceremony: "My colleagues and I are dedicated to ending our careers in medicine in the same way that we found it when we started - without HIV"
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Opening Remarks by SAMRC President & CEO, Prof Glenda Gray, to the HFSP Board: “South Africa is excited & honoured to be admitted as the 16th member country of the Health Frontiers Science Program & importantly the first country from Africa to join this auspicious science program
Division Manager: Research Capacity Development, Dr Thabi Maitin welcomes delegates to the 14th Early Career Scientists Convention. To our priceless human capital investment, thank you for participating, but more pointedly thank you for the commitment to your academic development
Dr Tarylee Reddy is the Director of the Biostatistics Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council. She is the youngest unit director in the history of the SAMRC and the first female director of the biostatics research unit.
We're crushing on SAMRCs President and CEO too. To pioneering in HIV prevention research and inspiring the next generation of women scientists.
Thank you
@Brand_SA
for the shoutout!
Shoutout to Dr. Glenda Gray, our South African science SHEro! On this
#WCW
, we celebrate her groundbreaking work on PrEP, a game-changer for HIV prevention. Let's honor her brilliance & inspire the next generation of female scientists to change the world!
#BrandSouthAfrica
#WCW
When Business and Healthcare research integrate | In this quarters cover issue of the SA Business Integrator Prof Glenda Gray discusses collaboration as a key aspect to enhancing healthcare.
A huge congratulations to Prof. Rachel Jewkes, SAMRC Executive
#Scientist
for Research Strategy & Secretary of the SVRI, on receiving her third NRF A rating! Continuously making outstanding contributions to research, unwavering in service and inspiring.
#NRFrating
Dr Hill has contributed in improving the lives of others impacted negatively during this time by making it her focus and priority to support clothing, food and blanket donation drives around Cape Town in her private capacity.
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#EachforEqual
#SAMRCChampionWomen
SAMRC boasts a wealth of esteemed researchers that are renowned nationally and internationally. With respect to the number of researchers in the field of Social Science & Humanities, SA ranked 7th globally, with 13 of the researchers featured on the list.
SAMRC scientists ranked amongst the best in South Africa and globally in the field of Microbiology, according to , a leading academic platform for researchers.
Dr Catherine Egbe has been undertaking extensive research on smoking & acquisition of Covid-19 and disease outcomes. She published her work on the lockdown & tobacco ban in SA, submitted 3 expert affidavits in support of government’s cases against FITA & BATSA.
#WomensMonth2020
If we do not strengthen and maintain routine vaccination efforts, we risk reversing key progress which could lead to over 2.4 million deaths over the next decade. All people must have access to life-saving vaccines.
#LongLifeForAll
#WorldImmunizationWeek
The Science Forum SA held from 6-8 December, CSIR ICC, Pretoria, serves as a large, open, public platform for debating the science and society interface. SAMRC is represented by Dr Renee Street, EHRU () and Dr Andre Rose, SAPRIN ()
Government and leading medical and pharmaceutical associations to collaborate on research and development.
@dsigovza
,
@MRCza
and IPASA have entered into a collaborative agreement, following the signing of a MoU in Cape Town on 26 January.
Yesterday, we hosted a group of 22 medical sciences students from
@ULvarsity
. Mostly on their final year, students “walked in scientists’ shoes” as they toured various Research Units.
Applications are invited for the Bongani Mayosi National Health Scholars Program, a PhD Funding Opportunity for Health Professionals. PhD candidates from the following institutions: (i) University of Fort Hare, (ii) University of Limpopo, (iii) University of Venda ....