Our Members
The IDM is a membership body. Each member or fellow, who must also be a member of an academic department at UCT (in any faculty), is elected for a fixed period of membership by the Governing Board on the advice of the Director.
The Institute comprises 33 Full and 12 Associate Members, with 16 IDM Fellows, 13 Affiliate Members from departments within the University of Cape Town, and 11 Adjunct Members based nationally or internationally.
Research in the IDM is led by the Full and Associate Members, either working independently with their own research groups or in larger groups led by more than one Member. IDM Fellows are hosted in Member groups. The Members may also collaborate with Affiliate or Adjunct Members.
Overall, there are more than 30 research groups. These include 3 multi-investigator groups that operate principally in the TB/HIV space, 3 extramural research units of the South African Medical Research Council and a number of other research entities, 5 Research Chairs awarded under the National Research Foundation's South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), and further areas of research foci led by individual Members.
As a collective, the research groups include over 460 research officers and laboratory, clinical, field site and administrative support staff, about 260 Masters and PhD students registered in any year, and 60 or more Postdoctoral Fellows.