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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Research fields and staff
PROFESSORS
J M Blackburn, BSc (Hons) DPhil Oxon (South
African Research Chair)
Proteomics and genomics for diagnostics, drug and vaccine
development for infectious disease and cancers
P N Meissner, BSc(Med)(Hons) PhD Cape Town
(Fellow of UCT)
Haem biosynthesis, disorders of porphyrin metabolism
E D Sturrock, BSc (Med)(Hons) PhD Cape Town
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) structure activity
relationships and drug design related to ACE inhibitors
for treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure,
myocardial infarction and renal disease
B T Sewell, MSc Witwatersrand, PhD London.
Structural biology related to regulation of glutamine
synthetase in humans and the malaria parasite, nitrilases
in the context of cancer, mycothiol synthetic pathway in
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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A A Katz, PhD Rehovot
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) receptors:
function regulation and ligand receptor interactions; role
of cyclooxygenases and prostaglandins in cervical cancer
and uterine pathologies
R P Millar PhD, FRCPath (Chem), FRSE (Life Fellow
of UCT)
Endocrine receptor and molecular biology
Professors (working in affiliated Institutes):
M I Parker, BSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town (MASSAf)
(based in the International Centre for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology – ICGEB, Cape Town)
Cellular and molecular biology of cancer; Regulation of
gene expression in cancer
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Denver Hendricks, BSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town
Molecular biology of oesophageal cancer and development
of novel chemotherapeutic drugs
Virna Leaner, BSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town
Molecular mechanisms associated with the development
and treatment of cervical cancer
Cynthia Sikakana, BS Wesleyan PhD Wisconsin-
Madison
Medical education, Metabolism of xenobiotics
HONORARY PROFESSOR
C. Seoighe, PhD Dublin
W-D Schubert, PhD Berlin
HONORARY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Luiz Zerbini, MSc PhD São Paulo Brazil
EMERITUS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
L R Thilo, MSc University of Pretoria Dr rer Nat
Heidelberg
HONORARY SENIOR LECTURERS
Henry Jabbour, PhD Sydney
G protein – coupled receptors in reproductive
biology and HIV
Colleen Flanagan, PhD Cape Town
Cyclooxygenases in gynaecological cancers
HONORARY RESEARCH ASSSOCIATE
Arvind Varsani, PhD Cape Town.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Pauline Van Der Watt
Andrew JM Nel
Putuma Gqamana
Brandy Young
Kate Hadley
Yabing Wang
Jean Watermeyer
Aron Abera
Victor Francis
Ross Anderson
Claire Newton
Jacqueline Bracher
Ross Douglas
Jeremy Woodward
Albert Abrie
Serah Kimani
Liselotte Angus
Rebecca Tadokera
Beverley Van Rooyen
Robert Ndoria Thuku
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER
Sylva Schwager, MSc
Proteolytic processing of membrane proteins
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES AND MID-CAREER FELLOWS
Kurt Sales, PhD (Katz/Millar lab, IIDMM)
Georgia Schaefer (Parker lab, ICGEB)
Catherine Kaschula (Parker lab, ICGEB)