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The Organisation has three Component laboratories with over 45 ongoing research projects in Infectious and Non-communicable diseases, Medical, Industrial and Plant Biology Biotechnology in: Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa.
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is a para-statal medical research organisation in South Africa.The current president is professor Ntobeko Ntusi. [2] The South African Medical Research Council was established in 1969 to act as an independent statutory body to co-ordinate health and medical research activities throughout South Africa.
Bekker was the co-lead investigator, along with Glenda Gray, of the Sisonke trial that aimed to give the health-care workers in South Africa early access to COVID vaccines. [34] The phase 3b open label clinical trial ran from 17 February 2021 [ 35 ] to 15 May 2021, [ 36 ] with 478 733 doses given to health care workers. [ 37 ]
From 2021 to 2022, health care spending per capita grew 4.1 percent, faster than the 3.2 percent increase from 2020 to 2021, according to Peterson-KFF’s Health System Tracker. ... Biotechnology ...
The Council of the University of Natal voted on 31 May 2002 to offer the post of Vice-Chancellor and University Principal to world-renowned medical scientist and former Medical Research Council President – Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, who assumed office on 1 September 2002.
When South Africa freed itself of apartheid, the new health care policy has emphasised public health care, which is founded with primary health care. The National Strategic Plan therefore promotes distribution of anti-retroviral therapy through the public sector, and more specifically, primary health care. [10]
It was established on 1 April 1999 as an autonomous statutory body in accordance with the National Research Foundation Act.Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2021.
Shabir Ahmed Madhi, CBE (born 1966) is a South African physician who is professor of vaccinology and director of the South African Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, and National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases.