Networks
International, African and Local Collaborative Networks
International Collaborative Projects
Professor M. Mizokami, The Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan. Professor Y. Tanaka, Department of Clinical Molecular Informative Medicine, University of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan. Molecular epidemiology and functional characterization of hepatitis B virus isolates from Africa
Professor D. Glebe and Professor W. H. Gerlich, Institute of Medical Virology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany. Occult hepatitis B virus infection and reactivation in Africans in the context of the human immunodeficiency virus pandemic.
Professor C. Koumenis, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America. A study of the unfolded protein response in uninfected and hepatitis B virus infected cultured hepatoma cells.
Professor G. Sourvinos, Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Comparison of HBV isolates from Greek patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in asymptomatic carriers of HBV.
Professor S. Hadziyannis, Department of Medicine and Hepatology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece. Bioinformatics of HBV infection.
Professor S. Locarnini and Dr P. Revill, Victoria Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia. Molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus from the Khoi-San and Pygmy populations. Molecular and functional characterization of hepatitis B virus from African immigrants in Melbroune, Australia.
Professor K.T. Shenoy, Department of Gastroenterology, Sree Gokulam Medical College & Research Foundation, Kerala, India. Molecular Characterization of Hepatitis B Virus isolates from Chronic, Cirrhotic and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients from Kerala, India.
Professor Z.L. Fang, Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China. Hepatocellular cancer related HBV mutations from Chines and South African HIV-positive individuals and AIDS patients.
Professor S. Gomes, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hepatitis B virus subgenotype A1: Evolutionary relationships between Brazilian, African and Asian isolates.
Dr D. Paraskevis, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Phylogeography of hepatitis B virus.
Professor J.R.R. Pinho, Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine and Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus isolated from Maranhão state, Brazil.
African Collaborative Projects
Professor H. M. Y. Mudawi, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Khartoum, Sudan. Occult hepatitis B virus infection and reactivation in Africans in the context of the human immunodeficiency virus pandemic.
Dr Fredrick Okoth, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus isolated from liver disease patients in Kenya.
Dr M. Ongeri, Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Molecular Epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus Infections among drug abusers in Kenya.
Local Collaborative Projects
Doctor N. Martinson, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand. Epidemiology and molecular characterization of HBV isolated from human immunodeficiency virus infected individuals.C. Babb, NHLS/MRC Cancer Epidemiology Research Group, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, Ms M. Urban, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand & formerly NHLS/MRC Cancer Epidemiology Research Group, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, Dr C.S. Chasela, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Professor B. Sartorius, Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Howard and Professor K. Sartorius, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The interaction of HIV with hepatitis viruses as risks for hepatocellular carcinoma in a Black South African population, 1998 – 2011.
Professor R. Bhimma, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. The role of hepatitis B and C viruses infection in pathogenesis of membranous nephropathy.
Dr R. Crookes, South African National Blood Transfusion Service, Johannesburg. Hepatitis B Virus Transmission following Blood Transfusion.
Professor C. S Firnhaber, Clinical HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. HBsAg-negative hepatitis B virus infection in human immunodeficiency infected individuals in South Africa.
Dr G. Gordon and Ms I.J. Fenyvesi, Division of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. The prevalence of HBV and HIV in cadavers autopsied in the Gauteng Southern Cluster Forensic Pathology Service.