Lerato Cosnet,MD PhD
@LCosnet
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Ladies and gentlemen , Medical Doctor(MD) AND Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology- DR.DR Cosnet Lerato Rametse-Sangweni 🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Soooooo, my newborn thesis baby and I finally submitted our PhD thesis this week. I still need someone to pinch me!!😭❤️🙌🏾🙏🏽
#DoubleBlessings
#Two2023Babies
#PhDone
#Grateful
#GraceJourney
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Officialllllyyy a “Double D”!! Dr. Dr Rametse-Sangweni !🥹In 2011, the late Prof Mayosi and Arieh Katz started the first official MD-PhD programme in South Africa
@UCTHealthSci
.This meant that as a medical student you could also pursue a research degree almost simultaneously!!1/4
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On the mentorship chat, was super stoked to share stage with one of my mentees
@Zizo_Lusiki
who graduated with her Masters degree with a distinction!! I’m so so proud of you my baby girl!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
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My PhD supervisor Prof Clive Gray and my career mentors Prof Mashiko Setshedi & Prof Linda-Gail Bekker ! I deeply value the role of mentorship in any career, so grateful for their continued generosity and navigating my purpose & journey in the field .🙏🏽❤️🌻
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I’m VERY pleased to finally share with everyone that I have been selected among 635 other young scientists from across the globe to attend the prestigious
@lindaunobel
meeting next month.Thank you
@ASSAf_Official
for the nomination!
#LINO23
#Africatotheworld
💃🏽❤️🌻
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The LVAD doctor. What soldier . What a life lived oh dear Khanyisa, what a fight you gave and what fun you had. You looked so forward to the coming future. Sleep well. 💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
The Dean was like “Khanyisa Pinda”. I refused to walk and was like “Oh hell No! Read it again!” It’s with Distinction in Clinical Sciences and Degree with Honours, Khanyisa Pinda! Prof can’t be making such mistakes, yoh! After that the Cat Pounced! 🤣🤣🤣
@UCT_news
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Someone please help me understand what exactly I’ve been doing with my life before last nights experience?
@thandiswamazwai
, your presence? Voice range? BGs?? Instrumentalists ? You are ART , you are MAGIC! May you live long for my children to also experience you LIVE!!!!😩🥹❤️
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Please pray for all of us who writing up their PhD thesis , while also writing up manuscripts . Wow . 🤧🤕 This part of PhDing is equally as tough as lab time, they all did warn/tell me. 🥺🤕🙏🏽
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Extremely humbled to have been amongst the few selected young scientists to give a talk on my research work in the Next Generation Sessions
@lindaunobel
, with Nobel Laureates in attendance aswel.
#Africatotheworld
#WomenInScience
#LINO23
#Grateful
#Day4highlights
🌻❤️
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Encouraged to have been recognised last night at the South African Health Excellence Awards hosted by
@ClinixHealthSA
@ClinicianSouth
as an Emerging Clinician Scientist(runner-up). As I gear up for next career step post-PhD , this is such a lovely nudge!
#Wins
#Grace
❤️✨🌻
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Literally had goosebumps the ENTIRE evening last night 😭🥹❤️ What a musical FEAST😍🔥🌻🤯 Thank you
@thandiswamazwai
! Please do check out her new album!’
#Sankofa
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Loreal For Women in Science Young Talents Programme 2021 recipient! 😭🥺🙏🏽❤️So humbled to be amongst the 6 amazing selected winners for 2021. Excited to join and grow from the
@4womeninscience
@LOrealGroupe
@UNESCO
community 🥺❤️🙏🏽
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We will NEVER REDUCE
@FabAcademic
to her social media . We have watched her DO the TRANSFORMATIVE work, EXCELLENTLY so
@UCT_news
!!! 💔💔💔💔
EXCLUSIVE | Embattled vice-chancellor Phakeng leaves UCT with R12m golden handshake | News24
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After reading this , I’m even more excited to finally have my “work in progress” manuscripts out soon. Less on the “we intend to”, more on the “we show”.. Tis the season . Be on the lookout for all the exciting data from my PhD journey .
#NewSeason
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Hey there Germany, South Africa is now officially in the building!! Super excited for the
@lindaunobel
meeting (medicine & physiology) ,READY to mingle and expand!!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽❤️❤️🙌🏾🙌🏾🥳🥳🥳😃😃😃😃
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Such w great way to start the month of July! Introducing Professor Salome Maswime!! Congratulations
@MrsMaswime
, your work speaks for itself, well deserved !
#Promotions
#FullProfessorship
#WomenLeaders
👑❤️🥳
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Honestly such an honour to have been invited to share some of my exciting imaging work which is part of my PhD work among world class Imaging Scientists 😭😭❤️
@AMI_microscopy
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As a Bill & Melinda gates foundation rising star 2022/3 nominee , got to spend 2 days with inspiring local partners of the foundation from various fields, and met my fellow rising stars! This was SUCH an enriching experience for me 🥺🥺❤️❤️🙏🏽👑💕
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I can’t believe it’s been an entire month already (as of today)
@MayoClinic
! Time really sweeps by when you are having fun! Also grateful to have SUCH an incredible team ❤️🥳🌻here’s to more explorations!
#Visits
#Research
#Clinics
# gratitude
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I meaaaaan?!!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️
#We
celebrate you Prof Lydia Cairncross
#NewGSHSurgeryDepHOD
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I have done SO many science engagement talks but this mornings one was/is my MOST favourite thus far! Had the huge privilege of speaking with STEM educators , most of which are from underprivileged backgrounds 🥺🥺😭😭
#Speakingengagement
#STEMCLUBNETWORK
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Fun fact: I spent 2 months at the
@MayoClinic
working on super exciting yet challenging lab project! At the end of the strenuous lab work (literally the day before flying out). All was a success and it all ended in these two tiny tubes(libraries for sequencing). Imagine?! Lol
#DSP
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Many of us share this sentiment.
@NdoniMcunu
was a genuine cheerleader to many female scientists . 😭❤️💕Thanks for vouching for so many of us wherever you set foot in . You truly lifted others as you rose. You will never be forgotten, we will make sure!💔❤️💕🙏🏽
My kind, gentle, strong, determined, brilliant light. My friend ❤💔. You had the uncanny ability to make everyone feel seen, loved, valued. It was your superpower, we thought we could because you did and you were.
I love you, always. Rest in perfect peace Ndoni ❤
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OMG!! SO humbled, encouraged & quiet shook to have just been announced first prize winner for best oral presentation @ this conference! 😭😭😭Thank you!! 😭❤️🥺🥺🌻🙏🏽
@ClinicianSouth
@MRCza
#InaguralClinicianScientistConferenceSA2020
😩🥺
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I don’t care what anyone else says but this is one of the MOST romantic gestures in the whole wide world . 😭🥹❤️Our African culture is so divine maaaannnn
#AfricanProposals
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Me learning today that Dr William Masswa has developed an AI Microscope that can give automatic analysis ,rapid diagnosis of cervical cancer & malaria is absolutely the best thing I’ve heard today.
@departmentofhealth
@dsigovza
I hope we are amongst the first to adopt this!!!
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Having the privilege to call one of the WORLDS greatest in my passion field( HIV)
@LindaGailBekker
my personal mentor is a DREAM! I believe our destinies are aligned for a greater purpose and I’m SO grateful & excited. Thank you for your warmth!! 🥺🙏🏽🙌🏾❤️❤️💕💕
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UCT researchers honoured in L’Oréal-Unesco programmes for scientific excellence
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I am SO grateful to have a supervisor who so naturally constantly affirms me ! I don’t even think he realises it when he does this sometimes.🥺❤️💕
#gratitude
#GrayLab
#Immunology
#UCT
#PhD
#Finalyear
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My ABSOLUTE fave! The kind of scientist I aspire to be! Great science communication- spoke SO comprehensively on organic chemistry , spoke with HEART,used part of his Nobel prize to fund the underprivileged to access education, extremely kind. WOW!
@gyss_sg
Sir David Macmillan🥺
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..me beyond what I thought were my limits and for that, I’ll always value your continued mentorship in my career as a clinician scientist! Last nightmy girlfriends said , midweek or not, dress up let’s go CHEERS! Grateful for community ❤️❤️❤️4/4
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To all the career women (like myself ) , I urge you, remind yourself daily, THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO LIFE. Honor the relationships in your life, honor the community of people around you. Remember always, people will often only remember how you made them feel. 💫❤️🌻
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The PhD journey is transformative in MANY aspects of an individual eternally grateful for the experience. ❤️Finally, to my supervisor Prof Clive Gray, thank you for creating the space for me to question , to try and to lead while learning. I see now, that you always pushed me3/4
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Today I will be presenting for the last time as a “PhD candidate” 🥺🥺@ our annual
@MRCza
scholars meeting !! WOW! The level of support I’ve had with the SAMRC is beyond my words!!!🥺🙏🏽😭❤️❤️❤️
#FinalYear
#GraceJourney
#Grateful
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Bathong
@ChatWithChauke
!!! It’s really AMAZING watching you grow more and more into yourself!! Honestly, can’t believe this is that young boy from undergrad I used to go on icecream dates with at midnight with!!😅😂😭🙌🏾
I am honored to announce that I’m a Malaria Champion—joining others from across the world to TURN UP THE PRESSURE BY DRAWING THE LINE AGAINST MALARIA. Share this film: to be a part of the worldwide
#ZeroMalariaStartsWithMe
movement
#AfricaDay
#ZeroMalaria
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Our children are thinking, they are curious & questioning, they are actually confident, they just don’t have the right guide & support. Morning well spent @ the
@Exposcience
district helping the young minds be better prepared for the regionals soon!
#MentoringOthers
#Science
#Expo
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Today we spoke about HIV testing, prevention & treatment! Loadshedding didn’t stop us! 🥳🥳🥳👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@ehwoza
schools workshops
#HealthEngagements
#Advocacy
#ScienceCom
#HIV
#Communitytalks
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Just got the BEST news today while I sink in my thesis writing!!😭💃🏽I can’t wait to officially share on this chapter of my PhD thesis where we examined the effect of PreP exposure on the immune profile within the foreskin. What does PreP do to hiv target cells in this tissue ?
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Medical Clinics time & Lab research time at the worlds finest! What more could I ask for while I wrap my PhD.
#FirstDay
#Stoked
#Visits
#MDPhD
#Almostthere
#FinalYear
#PhD
#MDPhDBy
&ForAfrica
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Grateful to have been amongst the first few students to enrol in the programme at its inception! Furthermore , thankful that the DOH at the time actually supported my decision to “deviate” and take what is still regarded as an unconventional route in Africa particularly. 2/4
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Thank you
@Powerfm987
@mbele_lnb
for a lovely interview this morning at the launch of the National Tracer study for Doctoral graduates in South Africa ! Had fun! 🌻
@TiisetsoLephoto
it was great sharing the interview with you womandla ! 👑👸❤️🌻
@mbele_lnb
@dsigovza
ON AIR: What does it take to obtain a doctorate?
@mbele_lnb
speaks to Science Communicator from Wits University School of Molecular and Cell Biology Science, Dr Tiisetso Lephoto and Clinician Scientist, Medical Doctor and Immunology PhD Graduate, Dr Cosnet Lerato Rametse about
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Yes she’s been a VERY different VC. And YES her social media presence made me cringe at times . BUT ALSO YES this woman disrupted long existing systems
@UCT_news
that only served the few !!! Yoh!!
@FabAcademic
, leave INTACT mam, we are learning!! We love you!!
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💃🏽💃🏽thanks again for the great interview
@Tali_Munzhedzi
. Check out the interview tomorrow morning friends , as we chat all things
@lindaunobel
alongside 2 other womandla colleagues! 💃🏽🙏🏽❤️🌻👑
Tomorrow, Tuesday 30 May,
@Tali_Munzhedzi
will speak to Clinician Scientist, Medical Doctor and also Immunnology PHD Candidate Dr Cosnet Lerato Rametse
@LCosnet
as she is one of the Young South African 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 scientists heading to
@lindaunobel
in Germany 🇩🇪
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Thank you
@UCTIDM
@UCTHealthSci
for nominating me of the two
@UCTIDM
to represent
@UCT_news
in-person in the coming week
@gyss_sg
! Ofcos humbled to have been further selected by
@gyss_sg
. Can’t wait to both be inspired and inspire! 💃🏽💃🏽🥳❤️
#countdownbegins
January can’t come soon enough because we’re excited to kick-off the 2023 Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS)! 🙌
Happening from 17 to 20 January 2023,
#GYSS2023
will mark a new chapter in its rich history as a platform to empower the next generation of scientific talent.
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Hoping for long-lasting connection my sweet Louise !! So inspired by you , your journey and brilliance !!❤️❤️🤗🤗
#Thisishowascientistlookslike
#LINO23
#BavarianEvening
@lindaunobel
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Met her this week and she is a delight surg exceptional work!! ❤️💃🏽💃🏽YAY IUIS meeting 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
We are very excited to announce that Nobel Laureate
@e__charpentier
will be a keynote speaker at
#IUIS2023
in Cape Town, South Africa this fall! She will be discussing the revolution of CRISPR technologies in immunology.
Learn more and register at !
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Gas leak… what are the oddss?🥺if we are all feeling like this 💔,deep pain & confusion, I can only imagine how her fiancé and family feel at this rate. We keep uplifting them in gracious prayers.🙏🏽❤️💔
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Ready to become a better version of myself !💃🏽💃🏽❤️❤️🙏🏽👑🌻
#Day2
#Rwanda
#WomenInScience
@4womeninscience
@LOrealGroupe
@UNESCO
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South African Nobel Laureate
@MLevitt_NP2013
meets fellow South African young scientists
@lindaunobel
. What a delight! 😃❤️🌻💃🏽
#LINO3
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What factors render the penis susceptible to HIV infection? Watch this :
#GYSS2023
@UCTHealthSci
@UCTIDM
@UCT_news
😊🙏🏽
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It was such a great pleasure giving a career/motivational talk at St Cyprians this morning. Such an inspiration for me aswel whenever I get invites to speak with the younger generations (our future) !!! ❤️ My most favourite part is always the questions at the end 🥺
#Speaking
❤️💕
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Also as Africans we NEED to start engaging and celebrating local events in science as much as we celebrate “going to international meetings”!!! Make attending local meetings (African ) fashionable!! The work is exceptional!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🌻
#PhdChat
#PhD
#Science
@FAISAfrica
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Thank you for your ongoing mentorship prof
@MrsMaswime
🌻❤️❤️❤️
Dr Dr
@LCosnet
unstoppable is the word that describes you!! Congratulations on your PhD; and for proudly achieving the Clinician Scientist dream!! Proud of the woman that you are, and the inspiration you are in Africa and the world!!
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What a huge honor to be part of 50 most inspiring women in STEM SA. I especially cannot wait to engage further with this community’s desire build together & importantly learn ! ❤️
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@ScopeShifu
, this
@AMI_microscopy
initiative is special to me particularly because it has put SO much attention into understanding the community needs to help ensure that the outcomes are sustainable!!
#ImagingAfrica
#Symposia
#Launch
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Aawh! Made the 2021
@NYDARSA
Trailblazers list for academic excellence. 🥳🙏🏽thank you! Truly honoured !🌻
The NYDA would like to recognise young people who are in the forefront of contributing and positively to the economy of this beautiful country.
These are young people who are active citizens and are true ambassadors in their own communities.
#Trailblazers2021
#YouthMonth2021
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The truth is IMAGING science is really starting to get to the most of me😂😭❤️❤️😍 Getting to master this technique on my visit is making me super excited and I can’t wait to share the results using our foreskin samples !!
#MayoClinicVisit
#AdvancedTechniques
#Imaging
&Genomics
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THIS ARTICLE!!!!! THESE CONVERSATIONS!!! We have all been thinking it!!!
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Huge congratulations to Prof Komala Pillay!! I still recall vividly,how I genuinely enjoyed all the anath-path lectures she gave when I was an undergrad medical student years back🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾❤️❤️❤️
#Celebrations
#Women
&Excellence
#Women
&Leadership
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It’s quarter to Friday & at this rate I actually can’t wait for the weekend to reboot!!🥺💕
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Day 3 highlights!!!
@lindaunobel
#LINO23
My MOST favourite parts of this so far are the conversations with other young scientists from across the globe. Appreciated that we mostly actually have a lot more in common in thought than I had estimated! :) ❤️💃🏽😃
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106 institutes. 32 countries. A true GLOBAL meeting! It’s been absolutely incredible chatting to fellow young scientists from literally across the globe. Often we even forget to take pictures . So GRATEFUL. Thank you
@gyss_sg
#GYSS2023
#Diversity
#Social
#exchangingideas
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Knowledge is power- we often restrict this to “formal education” but infact, we beings, we ought to be seek more knowledge on ALL matters that impact our lives.
@bellz_motshwane
, you are doing a GOOD work sis!! 1/3
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Excited to share our paper that’s now out , one of my PhD chapters on: A randomized clinical trial of on-demand oral pre-exposure prophylaxis does not modulate lymphoid/myeloid HIV target cell density in the foreskin
AIDS .
💃🏽💃🏽🤗🤗
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When we were younger & life was a little more innocent to our young tender hearts ❤️🥺🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️🕊🕊
#ClinicalPartners
#Medschool
#Friends
#AlwaysAmoni
❤️🙏🏽🕊
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My new woman crush in HIV research & prevention after attending the AVAC webinar today!
#Setting
an Agenda Together for HIV Prevention in 2022 .
Thank you
@HIVpxresearch
! Great topics of discussion!
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Super stoked to be spending time with other phenomenal women in science from various countries within our African continent. I’m ready to be inspired by all the mind blow & EXCELLENT work they are busy with and getting to know everyone as human beings aswel🥺💃🏽❤️🙏🏽🥂
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My Phd work also examined how ASYMPTOMATIC STIs impact immunity within the male genital tract and how the changes could explain the associated increased hiv acquisition risk with STIs.
MEDIA STATEMENT || GAUTENG HEALTH CAUTIONS THE PUBLIC FROM ENGAGING IN RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AS STI INFECTION RISES
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Dr Matthew Amoni was the first
@UCT_news
and the country, to convince
@UCTHealthSci
faculty members & senate to pursue both a Masters degree & MBChB simultaneously through the intercalated MD/PhD program which was established by the late Prof Bongani Mayosi. ❤️ 1/2
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“We think we are so clever and know everything, maybe we should revise that view”- Prof Prof Rolf M Zinkernegel
#Day2Highlights
#LINO23
@lindaunobel
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“I worry less about what funders expect, but more of what you expect of yourself” - on science and research. Open exchange session with Nobel Laureates- Prod Harold.E Varmus.
#Day2Highlights
#LINO23
@lindaunobel
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Woman crush EVERY DAY!! The contribution of
@LindaGailBekker
in HIV research is admirable!! Particularly love her approach to doing so!! Very particular about the importance of RELEVANT & community tailored science, something I’m very passionate about!
#HIVResearchHeroes
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Actually, my PhD supervisor has taught me to appreciate non-significant/“negative” results SO much! It’s wild and I’m so grateful . Letting the data speak for itself is one of my biggest learnings in my PhD journey (obviously at optimal methods) ❤️☺️
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Honestly I’m SO SO grateful for this conference already!! It’s only Day 1 and both the talks and in-between networking sessions are phenomenal! Weldone
@ViSTEM_Africa
organizing team! This conference is a need and impactful! 🥺❤️🙌🏾
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“Don’t make science your whole identity”~TanaJoseph
@ViSTEM_Africa
Totally!
#VSAStemForUsByUs
🙌🏾
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Oh for people who relate, this picture is everything. The exposure . The widening of possibilities for this young black girl?? As someone who grew up & schooled in the rural areas , lab equipments were all just in the imagination…
Please meet Sinalo Mbexeshi, a high school high-achiever who is spending four days in our labs getting training in molecular biology & DNA sequencing as part of the Generation Science (GenS) Campaign in South Africa 🇿🇦
@MRCza
@StellenboschUni
@ceri_news
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August highlight: being invited to be a chief judge alongside 5 other wonderful humans and getting to chat with primary & sec school learners on their respective research projects
@EskomExpoWCape
Capetown region competition !!🥺🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️ I will keep saying, our children are THINKING
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“Take leaps of faith. Start presenting at conferences even as at undergrad level, don’t be afraid and keep an open mind to opportunities”~JamesAzam 🙌🏾🎊
@ViSTEM_Africa
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The immune system is the MOST fascinating system in the entire body in my opinion. Any pathology , in any system, best believe the immune system is involved !! Complex as it is, the gradual understanding of it brings with it hopes , cures , treatments and even prevention!❤️🌻🥹
Happy International Day of Immunology!
Today we celebrate the incredible advancements in immunology that help protect us from disease and pave the way for healthier futures.
What are you doing to celebrate? Post and tag us for a chance to be featured!
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All I’m gonna say is Dr Vuyane is the future of medicine. If you can join in on his lecture , always captivating, innovation content and relevant!!💫
The Faculty of Health Sciences, in partnership with the Bongani Mayosi Foundation, invites you to the Annual UCT Bongani Mayosi Memorial Lecture presented by Dr Vuyane Mhlomi on Friday, 26 Jan 2024 at 18:00 SAST.
RSVP Now -
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