{"id":1096,"date":"2020-05-05T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:24:43","slug":"kudzanai-tapfuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/2020\/05\/05\/kudzanai-tapfuma\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Men of May #2: Mr Kudzanai Tapfuma[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]Greetings friends &#8211; we hope you are ready for great #MenInScience profile.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tapfuma&nbsp;is originally from Zimbabwe, and is currently investigating the use of nanoparticles and fungi as an alternative treatment option for tuberculosis. To read all about his exciting research career and advice he has for young individuals looking to pursue a career in science, check out his profile below!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1414\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4.png 1414w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/files\/2020\/04\/Who-am-I-4-1086x1536.png 1086w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1414px) 100vw, 1414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this post! We appreciate all your support. Help us empower young researchers all over the globe by sharing this post and promoting the amazing efforts of our scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Join us again tomorrow where we will feature Distinguished Professor Robin Warren, unit director of the SAMRC Centre for TB Research.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]Greetings friends &#8211; we hope you are ready for great #MenInScience profile. Today&#8217;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&nbsp;is originally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048,72177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-men-of-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}