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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Professors
1
Emeritus Professors
2
Medical Natural Scientists
3
Medical Specialists
5
Administrative and Secretarial Staff
1
Technical Officers
2
Departmental Assistants
2
Total
16
Students
Doctoral
6
Master’s
3
M Med
5
Undergraduate
200
Total
214
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Staff
Dr Peter A. Berman
Principal Specialist; Insulin gene polymorphisms; red cell
chemistry and biochemistry, urate metabolism, metabolic
disorders, Oxalate metabolism and the influence of
ascorbate on oxalate excretion; undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching. Retired at the end of May.
Dr Heleen Vreede
Senior Specialist; oversees routine laboratory service at
GSH; method development; information technology;
Dr George Van Der Watt
Specialist; oversees routine laboratory and inherited
metabolic disease diagnostic service at RXH; Chemical
Pathology of HIV/AIDS; undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching; paediatric biochemistry.
Dr Fierdoz Omar
Oversees the routine diagnostic and molecular laboratory
service at Groote Schuur Hospital in charge of the
undergraduate teaching portfolio; Postgraduate teaching;
Role of cell-free DNA in prenatal sex determination
Dr David Haarburger
Oversees the routine diagnostic laboratory service at
Groote Schuur hospital and supports method development
and diagnostic interpretation of IMD profiles at RXH.
Undergraduate teaching portfolio; Postgraduate teaching.
Proteomic markers of HIV, molecular genetics of androgen
insensitivity syndrome, steroid profiling by LC MS MS.
Dr Judy A. King
Medical Scientist (Principal); hypertension; renin;
aldosterone; sodium channel mutations; routine diagnostic
reviewing; undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Dr E. Patricia Owen
Medical Scientist (Principal); inherited metabolic disease;
homocysteine; mitochondrial DNA mutations; TPMT
mutations; urea cycle disorders; hypertension; pre-
eclampsia, epithelial sodium channel mutations; new born
screening for glutaric acid uria type 1, postgraduate
teaching
Ms Felicity Leisegang
Medical Scientist (Senior II); molecular genetics of
galactosaemia; spinal muscular atrophy; cystic fibrosis;
Westernblotting in limb-girdlemuscular dystrophy; TB-PCR;
application of PCR to genetic screening; postgraduate
teaching
Emeritus Professors
Emeritus Professor Eric Harley
Purine and pyrimidine metabolism; comparative biology
of red cell antioxidant systems, wildlife conservation,
genetics, theoretical evolutionary genetics.
Emeritus Professor Mervyn Berman
Honorary Professors
Professor Ishwarlal Jialal; Honorary Professor of Chemical
Pathology and Medicine, University of Cape Town; Robert
E. Stowell Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology,
Director of the Laboratory for Atherosclerosis andMetabolic
Research, and Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of
Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Vascular Medicine, at
the University of California, Davis, Medical Center.
Professor TS Pillay, MBChB Natal, PhD Cambridge UK,
MRCPath UK
GRADUATES 2012
Dr Philip Fortgens (Pathologist)
Dr Ryan Benjamin (Pathologist)
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of
Health Science, Private Bag X3, Observatory, 7935
Telephone: +27 21 406 6192
Fax: +27 21 448 8150
E-mail: cpy-secretary@uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/chempath/