September 2018

Candidate tuberculosis (TB) vaccine can prevent active pulmonary TB in HIVnegative adults in phase II study - Wed, 09/26/2018 - 10:15
Fogarty PhD Fellowship in HIV-associated Tuberculosis: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenomics of New Antiretroviral Drugs - Fri, 09/14/2018 - 09:00
SAMRC Gold Medal Award - Mon, 09/03/2018 - 13:15

August 2018

Funding Call: Newton Mobility Grants - Mon, 08/13/2018 - 13:00

July 2018

Fogarty PhD Fellowships in HIV-associated Tuberculosis - Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:15
Travel bursaries available for the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research Conference - Tue, 07/17/2018 - 08:00
Results from innovative tuberculosis vaccine trial show potential for new BCG revaccination strategies and hope for subunit vaccines. - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 13:30
Invited Plenary Speaker: Dr Thomas Kariuki - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 09:00
Dr Muki Shey awarded prestigious Wellcome Fellowship - Wed, 07/04/2018 - 10:45

June 2018

First fruits of Fogarty HIV-TB training programme - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 15:00

May 2018

UCT medical students introduced to HIV-TB clinical research - Tue, 05/08/2018 - 08:45

April 2018

Robert Millar rated 'A' for a 5th time by the National Research Foundation - Wed, 04/11/2018 - 08:00

March 2018

Care providers in ART care to reconsider measures of care retention - Fri, 03/16/2018 - 07:30
Ed Rybicki rated 'A' by the National Research Foundation - Mon, 03/12/2018 - 07:30
Positive results from research on vaginal ring containing dapivirine for HIV protection - Wed, 03/07/2018 - 16:30
Jo-Ann Passmore & Lindi Masson publish research in Nature Medicine - Tue, 03/06/2018 - 16:30

February 2018

START partnership between Africa and the UK: training next-generation researchers in structural biology - Thu, 02/08/2018 - 14:00
Ambroise Wonkam awarded major grant from African Academy of Sciences - Thu, 02/08/2018 - 11:30

January 2018

Robert Millar wins AU 2017 African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence - Fri, 01/26/2018 - 11:30
Newly-discovered TB blood signal provides early warning for at-risk patients - Tue, 01/16/2018 - 11:30
Prof Robin Grimes from UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office visits CIDRI-Africa - Tue, 01/09/2018 - 08:00
Another win for H3D as Kelly Chibale achieves A-rating - Tue, 01/09/2018 - 08:00
Claire Hoving receives Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Tue, 01/09/2018 - 08:00

November 2017

80th Birthday Celebration in honour of Emeritus Professor Wieland Gevers - Mon, 11/27/2017 - 16:00
Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winner, visits IDM - Thu, 11/16/2017 - 08:00
Renewal of SARChI Chair and NRF A1 rating - Thu, 11/09/2017 - 16:00
Prestigious SAMRC Medals to two IDM Members - Mon, 11/06/2017 - 16:30
Musa Mhlanga funded as part of the world-wide Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project - Mon, 11/06/2017 - 16:15
Anna-Lise Williamson and Jonathan Blackburn’s SARChI chairs renewed - Mon, 11/06/2017 - 16:00

October 2017

Fogarty HIV-TB Training Program awarded to UCT with partners Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt Universities in the US - Thu, 10/19/2017 - 16:00
Reto Guler awarded BRICS multilateral joint S&T research collaboration - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 16:00
Carnegie Developing Emerging Academic Leaders (DEAL) in Africa fellowships for the IDM - Wed, 10/04/2017 - 16:00
Three further NIH awards to IDM: TB and respiratory & breast milk microbiota studies - Tue, 10/03/2017 - 16:00
Graeme Meintjes elected to UCT College of Fellows - Mon, 10/02/2017 - 16:00
Best presentation awards for CIDRI-Africa investigators - Sun, 10/01/2017 - 16:00

September 2017

ICGEB holds workshop on host-directed therapeutic strategies for infectious diseases - Mon, 09/11/2017 - 16:00
New NIH awards to Ambroise Wonkam; and 5-year renewal for Nicola Mulder and team's H3ABioNet grant - Fri, 09/01/2017 - 12:30

August 2017

World's first international research centre for tackling fungal infections opens in the IDM - Tue, 08/15/2017 - 16:00

July 2017

Crick African Network to train top African scientists - Mon, 07/24/2017 - 14:00
Linda-Gail Bekker opens International AIDS Society 2017 Symposium - Mon, 07/17/2017 - 12:30
Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine awarded to Dr MJ Marakalala - Thu, 07/06/2017 - 14:00

June 2017

Novel gene implicated in an inherited form of blindness, retinitis pigmentosa, identified - Mon, 06/26/2017 - 18:45
Jo-Ann Passmore co-authors Science paper on effects of tenofovir gel microbicide - Thu, 06/15/2017 - 12:45
Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship awarded to Professor Robert P. Millar, recognised for his contributions to the field of neuroendocrinology - Tue, 06/06/2017 - 14:00
New super-resolution microscopes for TB, HIV/AIDS research - Fri, 06/02/2017 - 10:15
Antimalarial efficacy of MMV390048 has potential as new anti-malarial drug - Thu, 06/01/2017 - 19:00

May 2017

IDM Members receive ad hominem promotions - Tue, 05/16/2017 - 19:15
A new drug decreases hot flushes and may reduce cardiovascular disease - Mon, 05/15/2017 - 19:15
Robert Wilkinson elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences - Mon, 05/15/2017 - 19:00
Commentary by Valerie Mizrahi published in Cell - Mon, 05/15/2017 - 13:00