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Men of May #3: Prof Robin Warren

Welcome back to the MBHG blog! We hope you are ready for another exciting #MenInScience profile. Today we are shining the spotlight on Distinguished Professor Robin Warren, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research housed in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics.…

Men of May #2: Mr Kudzanai Tapfuma

Greetings friends – we hope you are ready for great #MenInScience profile. Today’s featured Scientist for the #MenOfMay blog series is Mr Kudzanai Tapfuma, a PhD candidate within the Mycochem Lab of the TB Drug Discovery Research Group at the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics. Mr Tapfuma is originally…

Men of May

Celebrating the Brilliant male minds of MBHG As a follow-up to the “Woman’s History Month” Blog series, which highlighted the incredible #WomanInScience within out division, we will be featuring various #MenInScience throughout the month of May. For this series, we have selected a group of professors, senior researchers and postdoctoral…

All the beautiful models

Statistical models are a lot like beauty pageants. You can philosophically discuss what truth/beauty really is or rant about how models don’t represent the general population. Both have curves, tight fits and ways to cover up unfortunate data points. Both are slightly obsessed with perfection, while both actually know this…