Year 3 #COVID19. The science & our understanding has progressed, concluding that many of the interventions within our 🇿🇦 national state of disaster are no longer fit for purpose. Time is now, for a substantial re-think dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0…

Our paper on Omicron is out in the New England Journal of Medicine. Antibodies in people who got 2 doses of Moderna's vaccine are much worse at recognizing omicron, compared to other variants. Booster dose helps a lot. nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

youtu.be/CwpXdghFw6k A session yesterday from Penny Moore and NICD to summarise what we know about Omicron thus far. #COVID19

⁦Jinal Bhiman⁩ and ⁦⁦Shabir Madhi⁩ on the emergence of Omicron theconversation.com/south-african-…

Based at the IDM Roanne Keeton, Wendy Burgers, Catherine Riou & colleagues, have co-authored a paper in nature on the responses of: “T cell on SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron” - go.nature.com/34xFlOE CIDRI-Africa has moved @cidri-africa.bsky.social UCT Health Sciences UCT Medicine CAPRISA

As expected, Omicron BA.2 takes over in South Africa, close to 100% of the new genomes. What does it mean?

Our latest study looking at longitudinal responses following Ad26.COV2.S breakthrough infections is out in Cell Reports Medicine. We show high neutralization titers vs Omicron, ADCC and binding to other VOCs. Huge team effort led by Dale Kitchin PhD and Simone Richardson PhD cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Omicron doesn't trigger cross reactive neutralization in unvaccinated individuals but if you are vaccinated and were infected with Omicron you have very cross reactive responses. Another reason to get vaccinated! Big team effort lead by Simone Richardson PhD medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We were always inspired by Penny! #fearlessleader

Proud to be a part of Shadow--a-scientist #newgenerationofSTEM linkedin.com/posts/shadow-a…

Happy to have hosted Dr Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire KizzyPhD at AIRU last week who spoke about her mRNA vaccine journey and her new work pioneering broad Coronavirus vaccine strategies. A great talk to get us all inspired! #vaccineswork

Representing AIRU with two talks and poster in Brisbane at Options2024! #AIRUgoesdownunder

We are hiring! Two posts for medical scientists are available. Come and join a dynamic and exciting team! Applications due 7th October.

Mean time in Brisbane..... Options2024 A great time to talk about respiratory diseases and the best part? None of us have to wear masks!

The newly minted Dr Motsoeneng gave a fantastic talk yesterday! Options2024

Our very own Dr Thandeka Moyo Gwete flying the flag for AIRU.

Although we weren't sadly there is person Dr Dale Kitchin Dale Kitchin PhD and Prof Moore gave stellar presentations at HIVR4P. The future of prevention looks bright!

We are hiring! Please send in your CV to work on flow cytometry and exceptionally cool science with an awesome team (we aren't biased though!)

Congrats to our very own Dr Simone Richardson Simone Richardson PhD for being awarded the prestigious Meiring Naude Medal from the Royal Society of South Africa for 2025! royalsocietysa.org.za/index.php/2020…