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Wits
Researcher Wins Coveted Prize
January 2011
-Wits is very proud to hail one of its own young researchers, Dr Bavesh
Kana, who was selected as one of the recipients of the inaugural Howard
Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) inaugural International Early Career
Scientist (IECS) awards – one of only two South Africans. The awards
have given an important boost to top young biomedical scientists from
12 countries at a critical time in their careers.
DST/CSIR’s
Nanomedicine Research programme awarded status as ANDI Centre of
Excellence in health innovation
December 2011
-The CSIR’s nanomedicine research programme, sponsored by
the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been awarded Centre
of Excellence in health innovation status by the African Network for
Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI). Based at the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ANDI
promotes and sustains African-led product research and development
innovation through the discovery, development and delivery of
affordable new tools.
CSIR publishes Hoodia clinical
studies
December 2011
-Dr Vinesh Maharaj, a Technology Manager at the CSIR,
said: "It is important to publish these clinical studies for public
awareness." The CSIR has also acquired the reports to 14 clinical
studies in which Hoodia has been assessed, using
crude extracts and concentrated active ingredients formulated in a
number of different ways. In many of these studies Hoodia
was found to be generally safe and well tolerated, though in some
subjects adverse events and tolerability issues were noted with the
concentrated active ingredient extracts.”
Tea Research Key to
a Growing
Industry
December 2011
-Pelly Malebe's research on helping plants withstand
drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South
Africa's drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop
failures are frequent. As a doctoral
student at the University of Pretoria,
Malebe is studying the drought-survival mechanisms of tea plants under
stress – and has identified a DNA marker for those plants more able to
withstand drought.
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