| Group members (Staff) | |
| Dr Dee Blackhurst | Principal investigator |
| Joanne Pillay | Lecturer/ Medical Scientist |
| Biana Southon | Medical Scientist |
| Dr Nicholas Thomford | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Group members (Students) | |
| Sarah Lampert | PhD Student |
| Nolo Thobejane | MSc Student |
Core interests »
- Oxidative stress: in particular lipid peroxidation, antioxidants
- Lipidology, in particular HDL (high density lipoproteins)
- GC (gas chromatography) analysis of fatty acids
- HPLC-UV analysis of vitamins, Iohexol (to calculate glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
- LC-MS (Liquid Chromatography-Mass spectrometry) analysis of metabolites involved in diagnosis and study of inherited metabolic diseases
- Clinical Toxicology including analysis of alcohol metabolites and drugs of abuse in hair, blood and urine with GC-MS and LC-MS
- Evaluating the relationship between biomarkers of oxidative stress and barbering behaviour in mice at the University of Cape Town-Research Animal Facility (UCT-RAF)
Honorary Research Fellow joins the Division
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Dr Dee Blackhurst hosts Dr Nicholas Ekow Thomford, from Ghana. He completed his PhD in 2017 and Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020 at the University of Cape Town. He joins UCT Chemical Pathology as an Honorary Research Fellow in 2025, jointly appointed with the School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He heads the Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine Lab at UCC, Ghana. His research focuses on pharmacogenomics and genomic susceptibility into infectious and non-communicable diseases as mono- or co-infections/morbidities in African populations. |