MBHG Doctoral candidate Welile Nwamba is shaping the Future of Science as a 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa Laureate

A huge congratulations to Welile Nwamba, a brilliant researcher at the Clinical Mycobactomics and Epidemiology (CLIME) Research Group within the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, for being selected as an awardee of the 2025 Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents For Women in Science Regional Programme!…

Celebrating Pamela Ncube: Honoured as a 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa For Women in Science Laureate

We are thrilled to celebrate Pamela Ncube, one of the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics’ rising stars, for being named an awardee of the 2025 Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents For Women in Science Regional Programme! 🎉 Pamela’s pioneering research focuses on animal tuberculosis, particularly…

2024 EARTHS Summer school

Written by Welile Dube Three ambitious students from the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics (MBHG) embarked on a transformative academic journey at the Education and Research-Oriented Training in Health Sciences (EARTHS) 2024 Summer School. The summer school was hosted by Prof. Amena Ahmad of Hamburg University of Applied…

Professor Clive Gray Honoured with Prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award

We’re thrilled to announce that Professor Clive Gray, who leads the Reproductive Immunology Research Consortium in Africa (RIRCA) at Stellenbosch University’s Division of Immunology, has been awarded the highly prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. This incredible honour, received on 3 July 2024, recognizes his groundbreaking research into improving the health…

Dr Liezel Smith to lead collaborative research project at MBHG supported by the National Research Foundation award

Written by Justice Ngom Ngom Congratulations to Dr. Liezel Smith on her notable achievement of being awarded the National Research Foundation (NRF) Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers (CSUR) for the next three years. The CSUR supports research by providing once-off grants that are competitive and discipline-based. The grant aims to…