Dr Robert Breiman

Dr Robert Breiman is the Interim Director of the new Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute (IDORI) at Wits. Before joining Wits, Rob was the Director of the Emory University Global Health Institute and he was the overall PIfor the Bill and Melinda.

Prof Shabir Madhi

Prof Madhi is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Prof Wendy Stevens

My research efforts since qualification have focussed largely in the HIV research arena over a period of 27 years.

Naaziyah Abdulla

Naayizah, a PhD candidate, driven by a keen passion to understand the molecular underpinnings that drive cancer, is currently pursuing a PhD degree in the Integrative Cancer Biology Research Laboratory.

Yahya Choonara

Prof Choonara is internationally recognised as an outstanding global Pharmaceutical Scientist working at the forefront of producing life-saving medicines.

Cheryl Cohen

Dr Cohen is Professor in epidemiology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Heads the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa.

Ziyaad Dangor

Associate Professor Dangor is the clinical research director at the world renowned Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Aurelie Deroubaix

Dr Deroubaix is the academic manager of the Life Sciences Imaging Facility at Wits Medical School, which is the confocal microscopy core Facility for Life Sciences for Wits Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Health Sciences.

Adjunct Professor Georgia Demetriou

Medical Oncologist/Specialist Physician. Fellow of the College of Physicians South Africa, Certificate in Medical. Oncology College of Medicine South Africa, MBBCh University of the Witwatersrand

Christopher Ealand

Dr Ealand completed his PhD on seaweed genetics at the University of Cape Town and returned to Wits University to pursue mycobacterial research as a Post-doctoral fellow

Abdullah Ely

Dr Ely is a group leader in the Wits/SAMRC Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit (AGTRU). During his doctoral training he explored the use of the RNA interference pathway for the inhibition of the hepatitis B virus (HBV).

Dr Michelle Groome

Dr Michelle Groome is currently Head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Dr Natalie Irwin

Dr Irwin is a consultant Medical Oncologist at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

Mandeep Kaur

Prof Kaur is at the School of Molecular and Cell Biology.

Deirdré Kruger

Dr Irwin is a consultant Medical Oncologist at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

Betty Maepa

Dr Maepa holds a PhD in microbial molecular biology from University of the Witwatersrand. She is currently a senior lecturer in the department of Molecular Medicine and Hematology.

Dr Gloria Maimela

Dr Irwin is a consultant Medical Oncologist at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

Neil Martinson

Neil's research interests are in the field of HV and T B, and more latterly COVID-19.

Chris Mathew

Prof Matthew obtained his BSc(Hons) in South Africa and his PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Nancy Meulenberg

Dr Meulenberg is a lecturer and researcher at the HIV Pathogenesis Research Unit.

Carole Metekoua

Carole Metekoua is an Epidemiologist and Data Scientist at the National Cancer Registry. She is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

David Moore

David is a paediatric infectious diseases sub-specialist working at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.

Penny Moore

Prof Moore is Academic Head: Divisions of Virology and Immunology, University of the Witwatersrand and Director: SA MRC Antibody Immunity Research Unit.

Thandeka Moyo-Gwete

Dr Moyo-Gwete is a Senior Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Gita Naidu

Gita Naidu is a paediatric oncologist and the head at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, and the divisional head of paediatric oncology at Wits.

Jeremy Nel

Dr Nel obtained his medical degree from UCT in 2006, then specialized as a physician and then an infectious diseases specialist in 2016.

Tinashe Tombe-Nyahuma

Tinashe Tombe-Nyahuma is an early career Data Scientist currently working at the National Cancer Registry.

Tanvier Omar

Qualifications: MBBCh, FCPath (Anat), MMed, Dip HSE. Joint staff for 26 years, Principal Pathologist, NHLS and Wits, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Anatomical Pathology.

Michéle Ramsay

Professor in Human Genetics, Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and South African Research Chair.

Lesley Scott

Qualifications: MBBCh, FCPath (Anat), MMed, Dip HSE. Joint staff for 26 years, Principal Pathologist, NHLS and Wits, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Anatomical Pathology.

Thesla Palanee-Phillips

Dr Palanee-Phillips is Director of Clinical Trials at Wits RHI in Johannesburg.

Clement (Clem) Penny

I have a background in developmental biology with research focuses on the molecular basis of cancer and on stem cell biology.

Christina Thobakgale

I am a Senior Researcher at the School of Pathology, and my work focuses on understanding cellular and viral factors that predispose individuals to HIV disease severity in infected infants and adults.

Caroline T. Tiemessen

Caroline Tiemessen heads the Cell Biology Research Laboratory within the Centre for HIV and ST Is at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)

Stephen Tollman

Steve directs the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), responsible for its health and sociodemographic platform (HDSS) and multidisciplinary research spanning the life course.

Mboyo Willy Vangu

Prof Vangu is Chief Specialist, Full Professor and Head of Nuclear medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand for the CM Johannesburg Academic and CH-Baragwanath Academic hospitals.

Dr Rebeca T van Dorsten

Dr Rebecca van Dorsten obtained her Masters degree at the Erasmus MC university of Rotterdam in the Netherlands focused on in "wnt signalling in Embryonal cancers".