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The Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa's (CIDRI-Africa) overarching scientific objective is to combat infection, especially HIV-1, TB and lower respiratory infections, through clinical and laboratory research

30/10/2025

The Crick's clinical PhD programme.

Meet the team: New Contributing Investigator Dr Kurt Wibmer is PI of the Venom & Vaccine Immunotherapeutics & Immunoge...
29/10/2025

Meet the team: New Contributing Investigator Dr Kurt Wibmer is PI of the Venom & Vaccine Immunotherapeutics & Immunogens Protein Engineering Research Group (VŃ—PER). His research integrates monoclonal antibody discovery with structural biology to develop broad, potent, and thermostable biologics to address health challenges in Africa.

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Muki Shey. His research interests include: HIV and TB; and understanding ...
22/10/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Muki Shey. His research interests include: HIV and TB; and understanding the reasons for high mortality in severe HIV-associated TB patients.

21/10/2025
21/10/2025

Save the date!

The End TB Public-Facing Dashboard launch is coming. Join us on Friday, 24 October 2025, as we take the fight against TB digital.

21/10/2025

Last call for submissions! 🎨 From the microbes that enrich our soil to those that ferment our favorite foods and fight climate change, microbes truly make the world go round. Show us your take on this year’s theme in ASM’s Agar Art Contest!

đź•› Submit your artwork by Oct. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
👉 Details: https://asm.social/2Et

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Phumla Sinxadi is Head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in UC...
01/10/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Phumla Sinxadi is Head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in UCT's Department of Medicine. Her research interests include the pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics of ARVs; gene-gene interactions between antiretroviral and antituberculous drugs; and drug development.

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Georgia Schäfer's research interests include host-pathogen interactions of...
24/09/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Georgia Schäfer's research interests include host-pathogen interactions of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and human papillomavirus, particularly in the context of HIV co-infection.

Meet the team: A/Prof. Ursula Rohlwink. Her research interests include: tuberculous meningitis, specifically brain bioma...
17/09/2025

Meet the team: A/Prof. Ursula Rohlwink. Her research interests include: tuberculous meningitis, specifically brain biomarkers of disease severity and prognosis, and mechanisms of brain injury.

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune...
10/09/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.

Meet the Team: member A/Prof. Joe Raimondo. His research interests include the pathophysiology of epilepsy; and the st...
03/09/2025

Meet the Team: member A/Prof. Joe Raimondo. His research interests include the pathophysiology of epilepsy; and the study of brain function and dysfunction using electrophysiological, optical imaging and computational approaches.

Your weekend reads from :first up, "Population Pharmacokinetics of Rifampicin in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Adul...
29/08/2025

Your weekend reads from :
first up, "Population Pharmacokinetics of Rifampicin in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Adults With [TB] Meningitis" https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/232/2/e234/8121427;
then, "Diarrhoeal admissions among children aged

We describe rifampicin pharmacokinetics at high and standard doses (35 and 10 mg/kg) in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid in adults with tuberculous menin

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About CIDRI-Africa

The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) fosters investigator-led approaches via the overarching scientific objective of combatting infection, especially HIV-1 and tuberculosis, through clinical and laboratory research. In the future, CIDRI-Africa will expand its portfolio to include support for research on the interaction between communicable and non-communicable diseases, especially where the latter impact susceptibility to infection, or arise as a consequence of infection. In addition, CIDRI-Africa will improve understanding and management of the challenges of antiretroviral therapy (ART) such as metabolic complications and antiretroviral drug resistance.

CIDRI-Africa was established at the University of Cape Town to augment acknowledged strengths in the basic and clinical aspects of infectious diseases research in the Faculty of Health Sciences. This prestigious award is the only one given to an organisation outside of the United Kingdom. Three interlinked platforms support clinical studies in the community (Clinical Research), improve the depth of laboratory investigations for infected materials (Basic Science) and advance cutting-edge integration of high-dimensional, big data (Biomedical Data Integration). Each platform is led by an established internationally recognised investigator based in the Faculty of Health Sciences, supported by a Platform Academic.

The CIDRI-Africa Director, Professor Robert J Wilkinson, is supported and advised by a Steering Group consisting of the Platform Leads—Professors Mizrahi, Mulder and Boulle, and Meintjes—other senior academics in Infectious Diseases, and faculty representatives. In turn, the Steering Group is advised on scientific direction and strategy by an Expert Advisory Board of senior scientists with experience of the African research context.