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Professor Sharon Prince, Head of the Department of Human Biology at UCT, received the prestigious Hamilton Naki Award at the annual National Research Foundation (NRF) Special Recognition Awards Ceremony held on 2 November 2021.
Emerging researcher Dr Joseph Raimondo, a senior lecturer in UCT's Department of Human Biology is investigating through his recently awarded Wellcome Trust International Intermediate Fellowship epilepsy, a neurological disorder affecting 50 million people globally that arises from malfunctioning brain networks that result in seizures.
Congratulations to Associate Professors Sudesh Sivarasu and Malebogo Ngoepe to their recent apointment as directors of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre and the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics at UCT.
Welcome to Dr Jerry Ochola from Moi University in Kenya to a nine-month research visit to the Mechanobiology Lab funded through an Africa Research Excellence Fund fellowship.