Alumni

PhD graduates

Carla Martins-Furness graduated on 10 November 2009, for her research project entitled “Characterization of HBV DNA integrants in liver of southern African Blacks with hepatocellular carcinoma”.

Michelle Skelton graduated on 10 November 2009 for her research project entitled “Characterization of mutants and splice variants of HBV isolated from southern African Black hepatocellular carcinoma patients.

Chien-Yu Alice Chen graduated on 22 July 2011 for her research project entitled “The effect of a valine to phenylalanine mutation in the precore region of hepatitis B virus on virus replication, HBeAg maturation and expression”.

Caroline Dickens graduated on 22 July 2010 for her research project entitled “Occult HBV infection in Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus orientalis)”.

Raquel Viana graduated 09 December 2011 for her research project entitled “The relationship between HBV and apoptosis in humans and in a transgenic mouse model”.

Nimisha Bhoola graduated 02 July 2013 for her research project entitled “The unfolded protein response in cultured cells expressing either wild-type or mutant hepatitis B e antigen of HBV”.

Trevor Bell graduated 10 December 2013 for his research project entitled “Clinical and molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus in human immunodeficiency virus-positive southern African adults, facilitated by newly developed bioinformatic tools”.

Mukhlid Yousif graduated 02 July 2014 for his research project entitled “Molecular characterization of HBV from HBV mono-infected and from HBV/HIV co-infected individuals in Sudan”.

Daniel Mak graduated 06 December 2019 for his research project entitled “Epidemiology and Risk Factors associated with Liver Cancer in South Africa”.

MSc and MscMed Graduates

Euphodia Makondo graduated 22 July 2011 for her research project entitled “Genotyping and molecular characterization of HBV from HIV-infected individuals in southern Africa”.

Mark Keyter graduated 10 December 2013 for his research project entitled “Comparative molecular characterization of subgenotype A1 HBV isolated from hepatocellular carcinoma patients from India and South Africa”.

Suzanne Nicholson graduated 12 December 2016 for her research project entitled “Functional Characterisation of Pre-S1/PreS2 Deletion Mutants of Hepatitis B Virus Isolated from southern Africans”.

Lanish Singh graduated 08 December 2017 for her research project entitled “Molecular Characterisation of Hepatitis B Virus isolated from Human Immunodeficiency Virus -infected adults at various time points after the initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy”.

Khudani Nekhwevha graduated 07 December 2018 for his research project entitled “Molecular Characterization and Genotyping of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) from Sudanese End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients with Overt and Occult HBV infection”.

Daniel Simelane graduated 07 December 2018 for his research project entitled “Expression of envelope proteins by pre-S1/pre-S2 deletion mutants of HBV isolated from southern African HIV-positive patients”.

Trodia Zitha graduated 07 December 2018 for her research project entitled “Molecular Characterization and Genotyping of Hepatitis C virus From Sudanese End-stage Renal Disease Patients”.

Emily Youbi graduated 10 July 2019 her research project entitled “Analysis of the NS3 Protease Gene Across Hepatitis C Viral Genotypes In Treatment Naïve Individuals”.

Hillary Vos graduated 06 December 2019 for her research project entitled “Study of the expression of HBsAg and HBeAg by deletion mutants and occult strains of subgenotype A1 of HBV using cellular fractionation”.

Thanusha Pillay graduated 06 December 2019 for her research project entitled “Study of the expression of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) and Hepatitis B e Antigen (HBeAg) by different African genotypes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) using cellular fractionation”.