Structure Behind the Science

- 2026-09-16

CERI’s new Senior Project Accountant, Ronel Winnaar, believes in the value of collaboration, continuous learning, and doing work that makes a difference.

When African Data Drives Decisions

- 2026-09-15

What is the value of data? Across Africa, this question is being asked, though rarely in laboratories or journals. It surfaces instead in ministries, parliament and board rooms.

International virology honour: Professor Tulio de Oliveira receives prestigious ESCV Gardner Lectureship Award

- 2026-09-15

Professor Tulio de Oliveira, Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been awarded the prestigious Gardner Lectureship Award by the European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV), recognising his international contributions to virology, genomic surveillance and epidemic response.

Chisels and Scientific Money: What SU-CERI's Homecoming Reunion Said About the Future of African Science

- 2026-09-15

The Stellenbosch University Annual Homecoming Weekend brought together more than 3 000 alumni from four continents across 53 events. Among them, CERI hosted its inaugural Fellows and African STARS Reunion; a morning of honest conversation about mentorship, collaboration and the commercialisation of African scientific innovation.

VEME 2026 Poster Winners Put Research in the Spotlight

- 2026-09-12

From the movement of Mpox along river systems and the spread of chikungunya across Réunion Island to ancient viruses preserved in Antarctica, the winning posters at VEME 2026 showcased how genomic and evolutionary approaches can reveal where viruses have come from, how they are changing, and where they may go next.

Reading the Signals before Outbreaks Spread

- 2026-09-11

At VEME 2026 in Stellenbosch, Professors Moritz Kraemer and Houriiyah Tegally explored a central challenge for future outbreak preparedness: how to connect increasingly diverse sources of data to detect emerging threats earlier, understand how they develop, and target surveillance more effectively.

5th Annual SPARK Global Meeting - personal view of Dr Richard Lessells and Gugulethu Mkhize

Richard Lessells & Gugulethu Mkhize - 2019-10-02

Extract from Dr. Thulile Nlapo's Travel Journal to a Translational Science Trip to Australia

Thulile Nlapo - 2019-10-01

SPARK Global, 7th Annual Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Course

Benjamin Chimukangara - 2019-10-01

A KRISPER at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

Zandili Sibisi - 2019-05-01

Bioinformaticians are pioneering the future of science

Yumna Moosa - 2017-07-28

Meeting of the Swiss, Swedes and South Africans minds

Nicolette Crozier, Benjamin Chimukangara, Veron Ramsuran - 2017-07-25

Megan Druce: from Cum Laude MSc to a Scholarship for a PhD in Germany...

Megan Druce - 2016-04-18

Sthembiso Msweli: from Hlabisa to MSc and Further Promoted to Laboratory Manager...

Sthembiso Msweli - 2016-04-17

COVID-19 in SA | SA scientists don't expect high infection or hospitalisation numbers

From Tulio De Oliveira and CERI & KRISP team, date: 2023-01-10, duration: 00:08:46

COVID-19 | News sub-variant being monitored closely

From Tulio De Oliveira and CERI and KRISP teams, date: 2023-01-10, duration: 00:02:34

First case of COVID-19 sub-variant XBB.1.5 confirmed in South Africa: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira

From Tulio De Oliveira and CERI and KRISP team, date: 2023-01-07, duration: 00:15:48

As the COVID pandemic recedes CERI & KRISP join the fight to control other outbreaks and epidemics

From Tulio de Oliveira, date: 2022-08-05, duration: 00:02:16

Women in Science Profile Series - Sureshnee Pillay

From Sureshnee Pillay, date: 2022-08-01, duration: 00:03:24