South African Senior Research Fellows
International Senior Research Fellowships support outstanding postdoctoral scientists establishing their scientific careers in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and central Europe (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Poland). Researchers from any country are eligible. The awards run for a period of five years and include a personal salary and ancillary support.
Current Fellows
Professor Gregory Blatch
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
The regulation of chaperones by co-chaperones: the mechanism of chaperone-based cytoprotection
Dr Gordon Brown
Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
Dectin-1 and its role in the innate recognition of β-glucans and fungal pathogens
Dr Heinrich Hoppe
Division of Pharmacology, University of Cape Town Medical School, Cape Town
Endocytosis mechanisms and pathways in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Dr Johanna Moolman-Smook
US/MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg
Identification of sarcomere-associated modifiers of cardiac phenotype in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy families
Dr Edward Sturrock
Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Angiotensin-converting enzyme: crystallographic studies, structure-guided inhibitor design and ectodomain shedding
Dr Caroline Tiemessen
National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham
Innate and acquired cellular immunity in HIV-seropositive mothers and their infants
Past Fellows
Professor Albert Beyers
Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch Medical School, Tygerberg
A study of the molecular basis of differential signal transduction in T lineage cells
Professor Frank Brombacher
Department of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Role of IL-4 and IL-13 in infectious diseases
Dr Arieh Katz
Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Analysis of the activation of Gq and G11 by the GnRH receptor
Professor Girish Kotwal
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Elucidation of the structure-function relationship of vaccinia virus complement control protein
Dr Peter Meissner
Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Variagate porphyria and protoporphyrinogen oxidase studies
Professor Lynn Morris
National Institute for Virology, Johannesburg
Neutralisation sensitivity and co-receptor usage of HIV-1 subtype C isolates: implications for HIV vaccine design
Professor Hugh Patterton
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
The role of linker histone H1 in chromatin structure and the regulation of gene expression