Congratulations to the winners of the 2014/2015 National Science and Technology Forum (NTSF) Awards

TW Kambule-NSTF Awards: for research and its outputs over the last 5–10 years by an individual

Professor Dan Stein (Head of Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health and director of Brain and Behaviour Initiative and of the MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders)

For a major contribution to advancing basic and clinical neuroscience, with research ranging from laboratory research on animal models through to clinical investigations on the neurobiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders and epidemiological and public mental health research.
 

 

 

 

 

 

For research capacity development over the last 5–10 years: by an individual

Professor Jennifer Jelsma (Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)

For her achievement as one of the first physiotherapists in South Africa to obtain her PhD and, as such, has been in the forefront of developing a culture of research in the rehabilitation sciences.

 

 

 

 

 

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TW Kambule-NSTF Awards: to an emerging researcher (post-doctoral in a period of  up to six years after the award of a PhD or equivalent in research)

Dr Grant Theron (Senior Research Officer, Department of Medicine)

For his contribution to the advancement of TB diagnosis through, among other things, the invention of a device to measure patients’ infectiousness.

 

 

 

 

Read the UCT article for the full list of winners.