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Supporting Excellence
The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa fosters investigator-led approaches via the overarching scientific objective of combatting infection, especially HIV-1 and tuberculosis, through clinical and laboratory research.
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Basic Science
Our Basic Science Platform provides the laboratory infrastructure and technical support to ensure the safe handling of infectious material.
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Biomedical Data Integration
We work with multidimensional clinical and scientific data at the molecular, cellular, clinical and population levels.
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Clinical Research
CIDRI-Africa supports clinical studies in the community at our facility at Site B in Khayelitsha.
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News

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
'Lung: pulmonary tuberculosis' . Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC0
Candidate tuberculosis (TB) vaccine can prevent active pulmonary TB in HIV-negative adults in phase II study

Primary analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows positive results in clinical trial conducted in tuberculosis endemic regions.

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 12:30
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Fogarty International Center Emerging Global Leader award for former CIDRI-Africa visiting post-doc

Dr Leopold Tientcheu Djomkam of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has received a prestigious career development grant.

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 14:15
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Blood test to detect active TB in people with HIV

Researchers identified a combination of biomarkers that could detect prevalent TB amongst HIV-1 co-infected persons.

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 09:00
UCT scientists shine at NRF awards

The University of Cape Town’s top scientific minds—including two CIDRI-Africa Contributing Investigators—dominated at this year’s National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards ceremony, accounting for 11 of the 37 academics honoured at the prestigious annual event.

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Publication Date:
Monday, October 1, 2018 - 10:45

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  +27 (0)21 406 6797
  Kathryn Wood
   Room 3.03.6
      Wolfson Pavilion
      Institute of Infectious Disease 
      and Molecular Medicine
      University of Cape Town

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