IDM CPD-Accredited Seminar Program 2025

6 August 2025 | 13:00 - 14:00
Wolfson Pavilion Lecture Theatre, IDM Building

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Speaker

Dr Mohlopheni Marakalala is the Director of the SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research at Stellenbosch University. He completed his PhD in Chemical Pathology at the University of Cape Town (2008), receiving the Bronte Stewart Research Prize for the most meritorious PhD thesis. He then completed a total of 8 year postdoctoral training; 4 years in Immunology in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and 4 years in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His research interest is on immunopathogenesis of Tuberculosis, with an aim of developing host-directed therapies targeting mediators of lung damage