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Developing a vaccine for COVID-19
As COVID-19 infection and morbidity rates increase, UCT’s Prof Ed Rybicki shared some insights into the race to develop a vaccine against the lethal virus.
06 Apr 2020
‘Overwhelming’ student response to staff COVID-19 hotline
Over 100 UCT Faculty of Health Sciences students have volunteered to staff the COVID-19 hotline at Tygerberg Hospital’s Disaster Management Centre.
31 Mar 2020
SHAWCO’s COVID-19 info and soap outreach
Information and soap are precious commodities in townships in a time of COVID-19, and SHAWCO Health members went all out to distribute both before lockdown.
30 Mar 2020
Fighting inequality through health economics
UCT PhD graduate Tryphine Zulu will continue using her passion for health economics to help fight inequalities in the country, in Africa and beyond.
30 Mar 2020
Best paper award for UCT TB vaccine research
A paper on TB vaccine research by UCT professors has been selected as the best paper of the year for 2019 by the International Society for Vaccines.
24 Mar 2020
Achieving new heights despite a debilitating setback
Despite the challenges of navigating campus on a prosthetic leg, Jamie Adams has received her second honours degree – this time in organisational psychology.
23 Mar 2020
Selective dorsal rhizotomy 30 years on
UCT’s Dr Nelleke Langerak shares the findings of selective dorsal rhizotomy gait analyses 30 years after the study first began.
20 Mar 2020
Mom juggles challenges to thrive in disability studies
A desire to learn more about disability in education inspired Sarah Oosthuizen to immerse herself in online courses and sign up for UCT’s Postgraduate Diploma in Disability Studies.
19 Mar 2020
Coronavirus support from Canada
The Daniel Samuel Maseko Memorial Scholarship has donated funds to help students in financial need with transportation to get back home.
17 Mar 2020
Wolfson Memorial Lecture unpacks brain infections
Professor of neurology Tom Solomon from the University of Liverpool delivered UCT’s 8th annual Wolfson Memorial Lecture this week.
13 Mar 2020
Centre has ‘Africanised’ neuroscience
The world-class Neuroscience Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital was established to address South Africa’s high burden of disease in mental and neurological disorders.
12 Mar 2020
Scrub ride raises thousands for charity
The UCT Surgical Society’s second annual scrub ride during the Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday, 8 March, raised R48 000 for Operation Smile South Africa.
10 Mar 2020
Hair relaxers tested by UCT lab found to be corrosive to skin
According to a study by scientists from UCT, all commercially sold hair relaxers tested were found to be at pH levels that are corrosive to skin.
09 Mar 2020
Young UCT leaders encouraged to remain authentic
The annual Klaus-Jürgen Bathe Induction Dinner was held on Thursday, 27 February, welcoming 11 new scholars to the programme.
28 Feb 2020
‘We can see change and be proud’
As Associate Professor Gonda Perez prepares to hang up her boots as deputy dean of undergraduate education at UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences, she says retirement comes at the right time.
18 Feb 2020
Students can win big at Entrepreneurship Intervarsity
Student entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses and business ideas in the Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2020 with a grand prize of R100 000.
06 Feb 2020
Clinical trial halted, but search for HIV vaccine continues
Scientists are disappointed, but not deterred by news that the massive HIV vaccine trial, HVTN 702, has been abandoned early for failing to stop HIV infections.
04 Feb 2020
Diversity in research: a new focus for neurogenetics
In a Science article on the genetics of schizophrenia in South Africa, UCT researchers emphasised the role that rare genetic mutations may play in causing the illness.
31 Jan 2020
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