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Lung Infection and Immunity Unit
Keertan Dheda is an Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine, at the UCT Lung Institute, affiliated to the Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, an associate member at the IIDMM, UCT, and holds an appointment as Chief Specialist Scientist with the South African MRC. He holds a South African Department of Science and Technology - National Research Foundation Chair in Lung Infection and Immunity, is supported by a South African MRC Career Development Award, and is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town. He completed his PhD in Mycobacterial Immunity at UCL where he holds a Faculty and Honorary Consultant position at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health. This post is embedded within the UCL-UCT-SA MRC Global Health Programme Initiative. The group’s main research interests are the study of pulmonary regulatory immunological pathways in relation to infection, development and validation of rapid and field-friendly diagnostics for tuberculosis, and outcome and intervention studies of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This work is funded by the MRC, NRF, EU FP7, EDCTP, NIH and other agencies.
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First prize: The Lung Infection and Immunity Unit’s Dr Richard van Zyl-Smit
won best PhD oral presentation at the 2008 Medical Research Council
Research Day for his work on developing new rapid tests for diagnosing TB. |
Funding
MRC, NRF, EU FP7, EDCTP, NIH, Fogarty, Discovery Foundation, Polio Research Foundation, GSK (through the SA Thoracic Society), Astra Zeneca (through the SA Thoracic Society).
Collaborations
Active collaboration have been established with the following groups:
McGill University, Canada (M Pai);
UCL, London (CIDIH- A Zumla, G Rook and J Huggett);
NYU; USA (Bill Rom and Doris Tse),
University of Sassari, Italy (Leonardo Sechi);
LUMC, Netherlands (Tom Ottenhoff);
University Munich, Germany (Mike Hoelscher);
Lusaka, Zambia (Peter Mwaba);
UKZN, Durban, South Africa (Thumbi Ndungu);
UMDNJ, New Jersey, USA (Stephan Schwander);
University of Stellenbosch, SA (Gerhardt Walzl, Rob Warren,
Tommie Victor);
AIIMS, India (Suren Sharma);
SVIMS, India (Mohan Alladi);
Centre for Proteomics, UCT (Jonathan Blackburn)
Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership for HIV Research and Education (Rosemary Musonda)
Biomedical Research & Training Institute, Harare (Peter Mason)
University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (Lynn Zinjenah)
Research Support centre, College of Medicine, University of Malawi (Exnevia Gomo)
Direcção De Saűde De Cidade De Maputo (Zulmira Silva)
Max Planck Society/Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (Stefan Kaufman)
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The Lung Infection and Immunity Unit actively pursues equitable partnerships with collaborators. We subscribe to the principles of gender equality and transformation.
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