KRISP Talks by Dr Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, PhD, Academic Leader, School of Nursing and Public Health (SNPH), UKZN, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!

The event will give you insight into the exciting world of scientific research in the field of genetics but also give you a chance to visit the state of the art laboratory at the KRISP unit in Durban, South Africa

KRISP public engagement initiatives & genetic solutions with Thermo Fisher Scientific. This month, we have participated in many events and engaged with the general and scientific public! We have even participated in the BRICS summit and have been inspired by translational research.

KRISP participated in high-level meeting of the BRICS summit in South Africa, 28 July 2018. Participants include South African Deputy General (DG) of Health, Ms Malebona Precious Matsoso, the special advisor to the Minister of International Affairs in Brazil, Fabio Rocha Frederico, the HIV/AIDS programme leader of Russia and seniors representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast presentation by Tulio de Oliveira, KRISP Research Scientist, UKZN Professor, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 (7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!

KRISP Talks by Dr. Alain Vandormael, PhD, KRISP Research Scientist, UKZN Lecture, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!

KRISP team attended the 3rd SPARK GLOBAL meeting, which took place in Berlin, 21 and 22 July 2018. We have been inspired by this meeting and we are working with SPARK GLOBAL partners to replicate their successful model in South Africa

Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) training on PCR. Thermo-KRISP Lab, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 6 July 2018. Training is open to High-school and University Students and scholarships available to previously disadvantaged South African students.

In partnership with Stanford University, KRISP will host its 6th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 4 July at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address focus on Fintech & Project UBU by Viroshan Naicker, Mathematician & Economist, North Quotient.

KRISP participated in the Innovate Durban 2018 Festival, Sample to PCR KRISP and Thermo-Fisher Scientific Workshop, KRISP gets two awards at SANTHE DELTA initiative and Lancet HIV paper on Dolutegravir for first line therapy in developing countries

KRISP has an exhibition space at the Innovation Festival, The Barn, Durban, 28-29 June. Please come visit us and learn more about Genomics, Epigenetics, Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine and DNA testing.

KRISP researchers Upasana Ramphal and Dr. Marcel Tongo scooped two of the three awards at the Wellcome Trust DELTAS SANTHE research day held on the 6 - 7 June 2018 at Crinkly Bottom in Waterfall, South Africa.

KRISP and the South African DST, SAMRC and TIA showcase South Africa in the BIO 2018 as one of the most sophisticated, diverse and dynamic emerging market that is open to investment...

In partnership with Stanford University, KRISP will host its 5th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 6 June at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address focus on Diagnostic Innovations: Gaps & Opportunities by Dr. Richard Lessells & Dr. Veron Ramsuran,Group Leaders at KRISP.

KRISP on the official South African delegation of the BIO international convention in Boston, Global SPARK meeting, new services and online quote section of website, genome detective, inovation breakfast and talks.

A critical function of KRISP is to make genomics, NGS, epigenetics and bioinformatics services accessible to academic, industrial and commercial users. Services include on-demand next generation sequencing (NGS), cancer genomics, drug resistance testing, Human Exomes, HLA typing and absolute quantification (ddPCR)

By Lihle Sosibo, Durban, 24-May-18. Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) allows people and businesses to harness creations of the human mind and realise their economic potential through commercialisation. It is important to know what constitutes intellectual property, who owns the intellectual property and what protection and advantages are afforded to intellectual property owners.

KRISP Talks by Prof. Joe Eyermann, Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) - UCT, University of Cape Town (UCT), 9 May 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!

In partnership with Stanford University, KRISP will host its 4th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 2 May at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address focus on Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents and it is presented byTyron Grant, MSc (Genetics) & Patent Attorney, Partner, Spoor & Fisher.

KRISP partner with FioCruz and Oxford on real-time outbreak analysis, reversing brain drain and achieving scientific excellence, Nature paper, KRISP talks and innovation events arising

KRISP team spent 10 days in Brazil working with Prof. Luiz Carlos Alcantara group to use Oxford Nanopore sequencing device to analyse the current Yellow fever outbreak in Brazil

By MaryAnn Francis, Durban, 11-April-18. A partnership involving academia, industry and government is needed for innovation and entrepreneurship to blossom, says Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research at UKZN, Professor Deresh Ramjugernath at the Durban Spark Innovation Breakfast

KRISP Nature paper with Pasteur Institute on a new phylogenetic method to analyse large HIV and mammalian DNA sequence datasets!

Sunday Tribune, 1st April 2018 - The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an age of unprecedented advances, is under the spotlight at UKZN this week, writes A dire need to cultivate entrepreneurship and innovation in SA

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) in collaboration with KRISP invites academics, government, clinicians, investors, law-makers, entrepreneurs and industrialists to an intellectually engaging exchange of ideas on the establishment of an innovative bio-incubation system. 10 April 2018, Pretoria, South Africa.

KRISP Talks by Prof. Darren P Martin, IDMM, University of Cape Town (UCT), 9 April 2018 (12:00 - 13:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!

In our third issue of 2018, we would like to bring attention to a partnership with TIA, DST and SAMRC to deliver a Thought Leadership Workshop on Bio-Innovation. We also highlight some of our publications, collaborators and capacity building workshops

In partnership with Stanford University in the United States, UKZN's KZN Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) will host its 3rd Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 4th April at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address at the third breakfast is Professor Deresh Ramjugernath, UKZN's Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research.

1 APRIL 2018, by FRED KOCKOTT. South Africa needs to up its game in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, says University of KwaZulu-Natal deputy vice chancellor: research, Professor Deresh Ramjugernath.

The KZN Science Centre (KZNSC) team attended a HIV/AIDS training on the 8-9th of March 2018 that was hosted by KRISP at UKZN. The training equipped the team with a solid background and knowledge on HIV/AIDS which enabled the KZNSC educational facilitators to give informative presentations on HIV/AIDS to young grade 9 female learners in disadvantage communities.