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CJ earned his PhD in Genetics and Bioinformatics from Iowa State University, USA in 2014 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH in 2020, focusing on HIV molecular virology. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Ndlovu Research Department in rural Limpopo, South Africa.

January 2025

Dr Valdez is deeply committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM fields. Her dedication to science and advocacy has earned her recognition as a “Women Leader of the Americas” and a nominee for the Women of Distinction Award.

February 2025 Gaurang Telang has been an ambassador since 2022, we highlighted him as Ambassador of the Month in January 2022. He has been a great addition to the team contributing news, course content and interviews. We caught up with him 3 years later to see how his scientific career has progressed. Please can you Read More

Prof Shubhada Chiplunkar is a distinguished immunologist and researcher with over 35 years of experience in cancer biology and immunology. She is the former Director of the ACTREC at the Tata Memorial Centre in Navi Mumbai…

A previously healthy 35-year-old male presents with sudden onset of fever, fatigue, myalgia, and headache. He reports recent travel to an Ebola-endemic region in West Africa. The patient presented with signs…

The Director of Immunopaedia, Clive Gray, is the winner of the 2023 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship award, He will use the fellowship to investigate events in the placenta related to angiogenesis and identify a biomarker that can predict premature birth.

May 2024
On the IUIS Council and serves as Vice Chair of many committees; namely the IUIS Education, the Gender Equity and the Publications Committees. Ros is Chair of the IUIS EDU Online Subcommittee, which oversees Immunopaedia pre-course content.

September 2022

Melissa Murphy grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She attended the University of Cape (UCT) Town and graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology and a BSc Honours in Molecular and Cell Biology. Melissa worked for a scientific sales company as a Sales Administrator before returning to UCT…

May 2022

Dr Catherine Kegakilwe Koofhethile is currently in the final stages of her Postdoctoral/Fogarty Fellowship at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. She also holds a Research Associate position at the Botswana Harvard AIDS…

March 2021

Fatoumatta Darboe is a Post-doctoral researcher fellow at the MRC-Gambia/ LSHTM. Dr Darboe is currently working on the Tuberculosis Sequel project, which aims to identify immune sequelae of TB, as well as in response to antibiotic therapy.