Men of May 2020

This series featured various #MenInScience within MBHG throughout the month of May, as a follow-up to the Woman’s History Month blog series. Our aim: to breakdown the segregation within science and provide equal opportunity to all researchers regardless of their gender. At MBHG, we strive to create an atmosphere that embodies equality and inclusivity.

Men of May #5: Dr Wynand J. Goosen

And just like that – the first week of the #MenOfMay blog series has come and gone! We hope you have enjoyed it thus far and look highlighting MBHG’s amazing and talent #MenInScience.  Today’s #FeatureFriday Scientist is Dr Wynand Goosen, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Animal TB Research Group within…

Men of May #4: Mr Vinzeigh Leukes

Today is the first #ThankfulThursday post for the #MenOfMay blog series – and boy are we thankful for today’s featured Scientist, Mr Vinzeigh Leukes. Vinzeigh is a final-year PhD candidate within the MDSC Lab of the Immunology Research Group AND is working full-time as a Clinical project Coordinator for the…

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…