Staff

Bavesh Kana, PhD, Head of Unit

Tel. 27 (0) 11 489 9030

bavesh.kana@nhls.ac.za

Bavesh completed his PhD degree and postdoctoral fellowship in the MMRU. He is the recipient of a Columbia University - Southern African Fogarty AIDS Training and Research Program fellowship for postdoctoral training in 2004/5 at the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) in New Jersey (USA) and has also undertaken short-term working visits to collaborating labs at the University of Pennsylvania, Texas A&M University and Harvard Medical School. He also holds an HHMI early career award.

Bavesh Kana

Bhavna Gordhan, PhD, Senior Research Scientist

Tel. 27 (0) 11 4899135

bhavna.gordhan@nhls.ac.za

Bhavna pioneered the development of methods for targeted gene knockout in M. tuberculosis in the MMRU and is responsible for running the MMRU’s BSL3 laboratories. Bhavna is the recipient of a Career Development Award from the MRC and has obtained funding from the NRF to develop new lines of research and to support postgraduate student training

Edith Machowski, PhD, Senior Research Scientist

Tel. 27 (0) 11 4899133

edith.machowski@nhls.ac.za

Edith has been intricately involved in studies at the MMRU, both in DNA metabolism and cell resuscitation. She went for training at the Glaxo - Wellcome research campus (U.K.) and the Sanger Centre (U.K.) She is currently investigating possible interaction partners for cell membrane associated amidases.