POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS: 

 

PhD TOPIC
Adrian Hewitt Levels of Reproductively-related Steroid Hormones: An Evaluation of the Reproductive Cycle of the Great White Shark
Katharine Kyriacou Micro- & Macronutrients in middle stone age hominids at Cape coast
Miururi Macharia Distribution of paraoxinase I genotype and phenotype: correlation with lipid and lipoprotein profile, oxidative status and atherosclerosis in a South African population
Sandra Pienaar The genetic basis of resistance or susceptibility to MTB in children: Mutations in candidate genes of the IFNg pathway
Toni-Lee Sterley Glutamate and GABA function in an animal model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (the spontaneously hypertensive rat) and an animal model of anxiety/depressive behaviour (Wistar Kyoto rat)

 

MSc TOPIC
Christie Garson The effects of magnesium and ethanolamine on cardiac and neurological functions in isoprenaline-induced cardiac infarction and cardiac hypertrophy in adult Wistar rats

 

MMED TOPIC
Dr Chilu Chingwanda Topic pending
Dr Nalene Erasmus Topic pending
Dr Mbali Ndlovu Topic pending
Dr Hendre Swanepoel Topic pending
Dr Celeste Swart Topic pending

 

 

RECENT STUDENTS GRADUATED:

 

2008 TOPIC
Dr Jackson Marakalala
(PhD)
Inhibition of a mycothiol biosynthetic enzyme and a detoxification enzyme as antitubercular drug targets
Naadia van der Bergh
(MSc)
Expression and Purification of HGXPRT from plasmodium falciparum and characterization of its interaction with a effector chalcone
   
2009 TOPIC
Dr Erika Jones
(PhD)
The R563Q Mutation of the Epithelial Sodium Channel Beta Subunit is Associated with Hypertension
   
2010 TOPIC
Wan Iryani Wan Ismail
(PhD)
The Molecular Basis for Insulin Resistance and Lipodystrophy Induced by Antiretroviral Drugs

Vuyo Mavumengwana
(PhD)

Mycothioldisulfide reductase as a drug target
Dr David Haarburger
(MMed)
Serum Proteome Changes Following HIV Infection
Dr Fierdoz Omar
(MMed)
Investigation of High Molecular Weight Adiponectin in HIV-infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy
Dr George van der Watt
(MMed)
Whole Blood Mitochondrial DNA Depletion in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Children
Dr Carel Haumann
(MMed)
Investigation of an Atypical Protoporphyric Family in South Africa
   
2011 TOPIC
Dr Ian Ross
(PhD)
Addisons Disease in South Africa
Dr Ryan Benjamin
(MMed)
Establishing and Validating an External Quality Assurance Program for Urine Bicarbonate
Dr John Stanfliet
(MMed)
Serum Prolidase Activity as a Marker for Liver Fibrosis in Suspected Liver Disease
Raymond Moholisa
(MSc)
Analysis of a Variant in XPNPEP2 in Black African and Coloured South Africans Presenting with Angioedema Induced by Angiotensin I-converting Enzyme Inhibitors

 


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