IDM Seminar Program

Wednesday, 23 September 2026 | 13:00 - 14:00
Wolfson Pavilion Lecture Theatre, IDM Building

 

Host: A/Prof Virgin Rozot

Speaker: Prof Mohlopheni Marakalala

Mohlopheni is currently the Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Centre for Tuberculosis Research and a Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Division of Immunology at UCT. 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 the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) at UCT and 4 years in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Between 2016 and 2019, he was a Senior Lecturer at UCT and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard. From 2019 until his recent appointment as the Unit Director of the SAMRC Centre for TB Research, he has been a Wellcome Trust International Fellow and Faculty member at Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and an Associate Professor at University College London (UCL). His laboratory’s primary interest is on infectious diseases, particularly immunopathogenesis of HOST Tuberculosis, with an aim of developing host-directed therapies targeting mediators of lung damage.