Highlights | Division of Neurosurgery

Dr Ursula Rohlwink awarded an African Career Accelerator (ACA) award

Dr Ursula Rohlwink has won an African Career Accelerator award, from the Crick African Network - a programme of the Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom and five partner institutes in Africa.

Deep Brain Stimulation

The field of functional neurosurgery has seen an expansion of the services provided at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital to include deep brain stimulation for movement disorders.

Prof Allan Taylor promoted to Head of Clinical Unit

Associate Professor Allan Taylor, , who established the neurointerventional service at GSH, has been promoted to a newly created 'Head of Clinical Unit' (Principal Specialist) post.

CIPHER grant for Dr Nelleke Langerak

Postdoctoral fellow Dr Nelleke Langerak is one of only five researchers worldwide to be awarded a prestigious CIPHER grant for her project researching HIV encephalopathy

Wellcome Fellowship for Dr Rohlwink

In 2014, Dr Ursula Rohlwink was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust-Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative (CIDRI) after completing her PhD on novel biomarkers of neurological tissue injury and inflammation

UCT Neuroscience Initiative launched

A major neuroscience initiative has been launched at UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences in partnership with Groote Schuur academic hospital complex.

The gift of modern neurosurgery

When UCT alumnus David Barnes first lost his sense of smell, he had little idea of the life journey on which it would take him – culminating in his R25-million donation to the Neurosciences Initiative at UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital.