Supporting Excellence
The Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa fosters investigator-led approaches via the overarching scientific objective of combatting infection, especially HIV1 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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2nd Annual Nkqubela CIDRI-Africa Research Day highlights research collaboration in the Eastern Cape
On 28 October 2024, the 2nd annual Nkqubela CIDRI-Africa Research Day took place at Nkqubela Chest TB Hospital in East London.
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Researchers to discover new ways to better understand tuberculosis transmission in Africa
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Glasgow (UoG), is aiming to discover new ways to better understand and tackle tuberculosis (TB) transmission in Africa.
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Young filmmakers tell the stories of their communities
Our colleagues at C-SHARP and Eh!Woza recently collaborated with young filmmakers to develop three short films telling their stories.
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Dr Ruan Marais joins CIDRI-Africa
Ruan joined the CIDRI-Africa team of Contributing Investigators in the second quarter of 2024. His research is focused on the development of novel molecular techniques for infectious disease diagnostics.
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