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Our new group member, Ms Tshenolo Thato Daumas (Mphil student) have received the Ben and Mary Turok Award for Excellent Achievement. This award was made possible by a generous donation from Prof. Neil Turok, the founder of AIMS and then Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. Ms Tshenolo Tathu Daumas research
Gershom Buri, PhD student at Stellenbosch University, visited AIMS Rwanda from 18 January to 18 February. Buri is working on formulating a mathematical model to capture the most important aspects of immunosenescence which, if successfully accomplished, would lead to applications in personalized medicine. Buri used the visit to conceptualise and realise this model. He plans to
The impact of Degoot’s research has been highlighted in TheArtofResearch, a media initiative for science communication to foster creativity for public engagement among scientists and researchers. The human body has an incredible innate ability to remember pathogens (disease agents) that it has previously encountered, which gives it the ability to fight off infections from the
Augustina received the prestigious L’Oreal-Unesco For Women in Science PhD fellowship for sub-Saharan Africa in a ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa. The award will support her innovative efforts to analyze T-cell receptor diversity in paediatric malaria patients to improve understanding of the determinants of malaria immunity. Check out this news article for more