News at the IDM

Seven UCT researchers have been awarded a South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Self-Initiated Research (SIR) grant.

Discovering the IDM's pioneering research from novel diagnostics to drug resistance and non-communicable diseases offers insight into the dynamic landscape of infectious and NCD research and the profound implications for public health.

The IDM's emerging scientists' groundbreaking work in infectious disease research tackles challenges from SARS-CoV-2 immunity to TB transmission.

The IDM, based at UCT, celebrates a dynamic cohort of young scientists and two decades of excellence in infectious disease research.

UCT has been ranked 116th globally by the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, up nine places.

UCT’s Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, principal investigator for the South African part of the study, tells Nadine Dreyer what makes this breakthrough so significant

As the top university in Africa, UCT has earned bragging rights for a list of ground-breaking initiatives, spearheaded by scholars and postgraduate students in a multitude of disciplines from across the institution.

GIFT, an IDM-hosted biorepository of hundreds of thousands of specimens, is set to revolutionise women’s access to sexual and reproductive healthcare screening.

Emerita Professor Valerie Mizrahi, former director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, has been recognised with a prestigious lifetime fellow honor from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.