Prof. Beatriz Garcia de la Torre

De la Torre's research interests are in the chemistry of peptides, nucleotides, peptide nucleic acids and method development. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Proteomics and Protein Chemistry Unit in Barcelona. She has a long-standing commitment to peptide chemistry and applications of bioactive peptides, and has expanded her activities into the field of proteomics.

Prof. Tulio de Oliveira

Director CERI & KRISP

Mlungisi Thabiso Dlamini

PhD Research Fellow. Research interests in TB genomics and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Dr. Maryam Fish

Post-doctoral research fellow focusing on human genomics.

Dr Inbal Gazy

My research interests focus on human genetic diseases.

Dr. Jennifer Giandhari

Post-doctoral researcher fellow. Research interests in HIV-1 genomics and drug resistance.

Dr. Aquillah Kanzi

Dr Aquillah Kanzi is a post-doctoral research fellow at KRISP and works within the Bioinformatics and Genetics Unit.

Khulekani Khanyile

PhD Student at KRISP working on genomic analysis of viral outbreaks. I am Khulekani Khanyile, holding a Master's degree in Genetics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Through my MSC studies, I contributed three scientific publications to the international scientific community.

Dr. Richard Lessells

Completed a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship and PhD at LSHTM, U.K. Clinical Infectious Diseases Specialist with interests in HIV & TB drug resistance, epidemiology and clinical management

Dr. Yumna Moosa

PhD/MSc student. Research interests in viromics, bioinformatics and mathematics.

Farirai Mutenherwa

My PhD focuses on the social, ethical and legal issues associated with using pathogen data to link infections, in particular, using phylogenetic analysis results as evidence to prove HIV transmission

Sureshnee Pillay

Completed her MSc in 2014. Currently at Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies.

Upasana Ramphal

Masters in Medical Sciences student. My present research is in host genetics and virology, with focus on Human Leukocyte Antigen (specifically HLA-B) expression levels and its association with HIV disease outcomes.

Dr Emmanuel James San

San James is Pursuing a PhD in Medicine, Majoring in Virology and a Bioinformatics Research Associate at the Kwazulu Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP). Research interests are in the areas of Bioinformatics Software and Pipelines Development, Next Generation Sequence Data Management and Analysis, and High Performance Computing for Data Intensive Projects

Dr. Lavanya Singh

Head of CERI Laboratory, Stellenbosch University. With extensive experience in HIV research and molecular diagnostics, she has worked on HIV drug resistance and the development of pathogen detection methods, DNA sequencing, and qPCR, previously managing the ISO15189:2012-accredited diagnostic lab at KRISP.

Prof. Andrew Tomita

Associate Professor: School of Nursing and Public Health, UKZN. Research interest is in social epidemiology, focusing on the role of the (social/natural) environment in mental health, HIV and TB that promote human dignity in sub-Saharan Africa

Dr Laura Yates

Dr Laura M. Yates is a Clinical Genetics Specialist at KRISP and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaaZulu-Natal. Her research interests are in developmental and renal genetics, and teratology.