WELCOME!
Professor Valerie Mizrahi
Director:
IDM
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• Willem Hanekom & Robin Wood elected Fellows Royal Society of South Africa
• Digby Warner & Landon Myer receive UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award 2013
• Graeme Meintjes receives international EDCTP Rising Star Africa Award 2013
The Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
was established in 2004 as a trans-faculty postgraduate research institute based within the University of Cape Town, South Africa. It is physically and administratively located within the Faculty of Health Sciences campus.
Our Vision is to be an international centre of excellence where world-class scientists work together to tackle diseases of major importance in Africa
Our Mission is
- To conduct basic, clinical and public health research that is leading-edge and relevant to the needs of African people
- To develop indigenous scientific capacity in biomedical, clinical and public health research
- To influence health policy and practice by translating scientific discoveries and applying them in our communities
- To build partnerships with other Institutes and Centres in South Africa and elsewhere
Our research efforts are focused on
- infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
- non-communicable diseases such as cancers
- genetic medicine and
- molecular medicine including drug discovery
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