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UCT scholars to helm big African health initiatives
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million Australian grant for top heart researcherProfessor Karen Sliwa, director of UCT's Hatter Institute for Cardiology Research in Africa, has together with several Australian collaborators, been awarded a R25 million research grant by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The grant will go towards building research capacity in reducing inequality in heart disease in South Africa and Australia. Read more ... |
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Bateman wins top award  Professor Eric Bateman, director of the UCT Lung Institute,
has won the 2012 European Respiratory Society (ERS)
President's Award, becoming the first African to receive the
accolade. A professor of respiratory medicine at UCT and
head of the Division of Pulmonology at Groote Schuur
Hospital, Bateman was honoured for his international
contribution to improving the lives of people with
respiratory diseases. Read
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UCT student wins international fellowship
UCT doctoral student Fatema Thawer-Esmail was one of 10 African women whose work in the scientific field was recently acknowledged with a major international fellowship, replete with prize money of almost R170 000. Read more ....
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Red wine makes the heart beat betterLooking for an excuse to enjoy a glass, or two, or even three, of red wine everyday?Then medical science has excellent new for you: whether you drink red wine with a high alcohol content or less potent varieties, wine is good for your heart. A new study conducted by the University of Cape Town has found that reducing the amount of alcohol in red wine does not alter its protective effect on the heart. Read more ... |
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honours for UCT fiveFive UCT scholars had reason to pop the bubbly last night; they were named among the country's science and technology trailblazers when the winners of the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-BHP Billiton Awards were announced at a gala event Read more ... |
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Chronic Diseases Initiative in Africa |
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The Chronic Diseases Initiative in Africa is a collaboration between the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Western Cape, the SA Medical Research Council, the Western Cape provincial government and Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital and Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania and Harvard University, USA. The Initiative will serve as a regional hub for developing and evaluating models for chronic disease care and prevention of their risk factors. The network aims to train chronic disease researchers and to work closely with government authorities in the formulation of cost-effective plans to reduce the impact of chronic diseases and their risk factors. |
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May 2012 Go
big on PhDs, says MayosiIn his 2007 inaugural lecture titled The Future of Medicine, UCT's Professor Bongani Mayosi threw a pebble into a pool. It's an idea Mayosi would pitch again, on behalf of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in its 2009 Consensus Report on Revitalising Clinical Research in South Africa: A study on clinical research and related training in South Africa, chairing ASSAf's 13-member study panel. Read more ... |
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February 2012 Medicine hails its medical scribes
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2012 Medicine’s magnificent seven   Doctors in the house: Dr Graeme Meintjies (left) and Dr Richard van Zyl-Smit are two of the seven doctoral graduates to come out of the Department of Medicine this year This week, UCT’s Department of Medicine will graduate the most PhD students it’s capped in one go in its 91-year history. Seven new doctors of medicine will graduate on 17 December, much to the delight of the department. Read more... |
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Making a change: Fatema Thawer-Esmail has
had her scientific endeavours rewarded by winning an award
that recognises African women's contribution to science.
The
Faculty of Health Sciences has, thanks to some
generous partners, put money where their
Clinical Scholars' Programme is. At a cocktail
function on 15 June, the faculty named the
winners of the first scholarships - sponsored by
pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and
the Medical Research Council (MRC) - to be
presented as part of the programme.
Publishing
typically comes at the end of a very long to-do list for
those lecturers-cum-clinicians-cum-researchers in UCT's
Department of Medicine.
