We would like to congratulate two extraordinary researchers at MBHG, Profs Craig Kinnear and Novel N Chegou, Ph.D, on their award of their Sliver Award for outstanding lifetime scientific contributions to health research at the SAMRC 2019 Scientific Merit Awards. SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Great to part of the CORTIS Investigator Meeting in sunny Cape Town over the last couple of days. Huge thanks to @TomScriba, @satviuct2017 and all

CAPRISA congratulates Salim Abdool Karim CAPRISA and Lynn Morris NICD , named as Highly Cited Researchers in the 2019 list from the Web of Science Jon Cohen News from Science AVAC National Research Foundation of South Africa SAfmRadio 📻 SANAC

Thank you to VALIDATE Network for this pump priming grant to continue work on #TB #CMV and a new addition, #Leishmaniasis. Excited to start! Oxford Vaccine Group

The sad truth about climate change. Great article by Kevin Casey: Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late - globalcomment.com/why-climate-ch…

Interesting paper on 2019-nCoV symptoms in hospitalized patients in Wuhan. Scary facts from this study: 29% of patients were infected in a hospital setting, 26% required ICU care and 4.3% died. We don't need this infection in Africa! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

A poster we developed: Preventing COVID-19 transmission in the hospital: 4 important measures to apply throughout. Physical distancing in particular often ignored.

GPR183 regulates interferons and bacterial growth during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: interaction with type 2 diabetes and TB disease severity biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Check out the latest publication by members of the #TB-Diabetes Lab within the @SuImmunology group at MBHG! Well done to Gerhard Walzl Léanie Kleynhans and co on a job well done! SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Stellenbosch University

Prof. Hazel Dockrell at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine talks about how she designed the TriageTB capacity scheme to foster active and mutually beneficial mentoring relationships over long distance in a new article on the TriageTB website: triagetb.com/news/how-triag… #CapacityBuilding #Tuberculosis #TB

It is a pleasure to inform you that Stellenbosch University has extended the term of our current Dean, Prof Jimmy Volmink, with one year to 31 December 2021. Prof Volmink’s second term of five years comes to an end on 31 December 2020.

I am so grateful to members of SA Police Service 🇿🇦 at Harare Station in Khayelitsha who put in a tremendous effort in recovering my hijacked vehicle deep down the most informal part Khayelitsha. You guys are awesome. #Respect

It takes a village to raise a professor! Very grateful for the multitude of generous "villagers" who have helped my growth to this high point

Last week Friday, the MBHG division hosted an opening ceremony for the new state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Institute (BMRI) Research Bronchoscopy Suite. #research #science #TB #innovation #tuberculosis #BAL #bronchoscopy #BronchSuite #StateofTheArt #LeadersInSAresearch

Event Programme: • Introductions | Prof Gerhard Walzl • Welcome Message | Prof Eugene Cloete • Facilities Overview | Dr Stephanus Malherbe • Research Importance | Prof Gerhard Walzl • Concluding Remarks | Prof Nico Gey van Pittius • Ribbon Cutting & Facilities Tour

Well done, Jayne, and the MRC Gambia at LSHTM, TB team!

Let us use this break to reflect, in part on a year that has brought about challenges but also reflect on how you managed to overcome these and what you hope to achieve in the coming year. Until then, rest well and enjoy your time off - you all deserve it!

This map is not naturally occurring, it’s not ethical allocation, it’s made by policies and a decision to send vaccines to high bidders first.

Reasons not to watch a single WC Qarar soccer match: 6500 dead construction workers, 160 daily flights between Dubai and Doha for fans without hotel rooms in the small country, serious human right abuses, homophobia, severe discrimination against women, massive FIFA corruption.