Dr. Sacks research focuses on the immunology and cell biology of leishmanial infections and the biology of Leishmania parasites within their mammalian hosts and sand-fly vectors. The research may have relevance to diseases, such as tuberculosis, caused by other intracellular pathogens or to other …
Interviews
Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier
Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier is an A/Prof in Immunology and the director of the WHO Immunology Research and Training Centre. Her research interests are 1) the role of the innate immune response in the modulation of antigen specific immune responses, with a focus on the role …
August 2020
Jude Uzonna
Dr Jude Uzonna, Professor of Immunology is currently the Associate Dean (Research) at the Max Rady College of Medicinem University of Manitoba. Watch our 4 part interview of Prof. Uzonna that discusses his own research on trypanosomiasis, future of research in Africa and advice for future scientist
Hans-Martin Jäck
Hans-Martin Jäck is a Professor for Immunology and the director the Division of Molecular Immunology at the University of Erlangen, Germany. His research focuses on B cell immunology, specifically on the generation of therapeutic human antibodies against multiple myeloma in a transgenic mouse platform …
July 2020
Dr Heena Ranchod
Dr Ranchod completed her BSc at the University of the Witwatersrand, and pursued both completed her post-graduate training at University of Pretoria. Her research focus is on TB immunology. She initially began her research career focusing on antibodies and, has now moved to the field of TB-host immuno-metabolism.
Claire J Hoving
Claire J. Hoving is an immunologist and her research aims at understanding host immune responses to disease with a particular focus on HIV-related fungal infections. Fungal infections are often an overlooked clinical and public health issue. Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungal pathogen of …
Michele A. Miller
Prof Michele Miller is the South African Research Chair in Animal TB DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research at the SA-Medical Research Council Centre for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research based at Stellenbosch University. Prof. Miller was interviewed by Caleb Muefong during the January …
Olabanji Surakat
AfriBOP Attendee Interview
Olabanji Surakat is a Lecturer and Research Scientist at Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He attended AfriBOP 2019 in Kenya and used the valuable skills he learnt during the grant writing session to write his own grant for which he was successfully funded.
Olabanji Surakat is a Lecturer and Research Scientist at Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He attended AfriBOP 2019 in Kenya and used the valuable skills he learnt during the grant writing session to write his own grant for which he was successfully funded.
February 2020
Professor Magez
Prof. Magez is a Belgian Professor of immunology, who focuses on parasite-immunology. He currently leads his research teams based at the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea and the Free University of Brussel, Belgium. For the past 30 years he has conducted research on...
Yaw Bediako
Yaw Bediako is a Ghanian immunologist, whose current research focuses on malaria immunology. He is currently a Research Fellow at West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens -University of Ghana. In addition to his academic post, he was recently selected to be …