?Centre for C???ardio-metabolic Research in Africa (CARMA)?
Postgraduate Tr?aining
?A key mission of CARMA is to offer world-class postgraduate training for biomedical and medical students and also to nurture the future generations of African biomedical scientists. CARMA therefore aims to act as a focal point of capacity development and career development activities for postgraduate students and the future generation of research leaders. Although it is roughly calculated that Africa requires about 1, 000 doctorate science graduates per million people, the current pipeline falls far short of this target. This has resulted in a relatively limited research capacity across the African continent, except for a few pockets of excellence. This is due to several reasons including inadequate research facilities and infrastructure, and the lack of a critical mass of experts needed to sustain and drive biomedical research. It is therefore our aim to empower and train the identified individuals in order to build the future generation of faculty and biomedical researchers to especially serve the needs of the African continent. It is also the aim to upskill the leadership potential of such individuals in order to eventually play a broader role, e.g. disseminating factual information to the general public regarding important health issues and research findings, ensuring that policymakers make evidence-based decisions regarding complex health issues, and lobbying governments for increased financial support to sustain and expand research and development within the African context. CARMA regularly arranges seminars/webinars on a wide variety of topics, e.g. scientific writing skills, the nature of science, how to successful enter the job market, etc.
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?Post-doc?toral Fellows
Dr Eman Teer
?Email: emanteer@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: MBChB and PhD
Research Focus: HIV-mediated CVD (cardiac fibrosis), HIV immunology, immune cells response and immune dysregulation, and flow cytometry
Host: Prof. Faadiel Essop
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?Dr Taahirah Boltman
Email: 27780171@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: BSc Medical Biosciences (UWC); BSc Medical Biosciences (Hons); MSc Nanosciences (Cum Laude (UWC); PhD Medical Biosciences (UWC)?
Research Focus: Altered mitochondrial function and HIV-associated
cardiometabolic disease in populations from South Africa and
Kenya (MITO-SAKen).
Host: Prof Hans Strijdom
?Dr Jeffery Adoga
Email: adogaj@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: BSc (Medical Physiology); Msc (Physiology) and PhD Health Sciences (Physiology)
Research Focus: Altered mitochondrial function and HIV-associated
cardiometabolic disease in populations from South Africa and
Kenya (MITO-SAKen).
Host: Prof Hans Strijdom??
Dr Megan Cairns?
Email: 20212224@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: .Bsc (Biology?); BSc Hons (Physiological Sciences); Msc (Physiological Sciences, Cum Laude) and PhD (Medical Physiology)?
Research Focus: The effects of chronic stress on cardiovascular function.??
Host: Prof. Faadiel Essop
PhD
Joshua Matthee
?Email: 19382650@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc (Human Life Science); BSc (Hons) (Medical Physiology) and MSc(Medical Physiology) and MSc (Medical Pysiology)
Project: Characterising the effects and underlying mechanisms of mitochondrial-targeted, orientin enriched nanoparicles (NPs) in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.
Supervisor: Dr Gerald Maarman and co-supervisor Dr Admire Dube
Hannah Fokkens??
?Email: 21992649@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BMedSci (Physiology-Cum Laude); BSc Hons (Medical Physiology-Cum Laude) and MSc(Medical Physiology-Cum Laude)
Project: Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation signitures and the risk of developing hypertension in a South African population
Supervisor: Prof. Rabia Johnson and co-superviso Dr Jyoti Sharma and Prof. Hans Strijdom
Vuyolwethu? Mbombela
?Email: ?vuyolm@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: ?BSc (Medical Sciences), BSc Hons (Medical Sciences) and MSc (Physiological Sciences)?
Project: ??Characterizing and comparing the effects of Olanzapine on systemic metabolism as modelled in male and female Westar rat white adipose tissue inflammation and bioenergetics ?
Supervisor: Dr Gerald Maarman and co-supervisor Dr Admire Dube
Kheya Mokoena
?Email: 23149108@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc (Human Life Science), BSc Honours (Biochemistry) ? and MSc (Medical Physiology- Cum laude)??
Project: Investigating the effcet of cardiometabolic disease on mitochondrial respiratory function and mRNA expression levels in people living with HIV: A longitudinal study
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Strijdom and co-supervisors Dr Ingrid Webster and Dr Marguerite Blignaut
MSc
Chrisstoffel Jum?aar
Email: 27421309@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BHSc. Medical Laboratory Science (Distinction) (CPUT)
Project Title: Investigating the usefulness of a novel plasma 5-marker host biosignature to identify pulmonary arterial hypertension in a post-tuberculosis context in a South African cohort.
Supervisors: Dr G Maarman
Jasmine Andrews
E-mail: 26746328@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc Medical Bioscience (UWC), BSc (Hons) Med Phys (SU)
Project Title: Investigating the links between chronic stress and autophagy in? hepatic and cardiac tissue from female Wistar rats. ?
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Anique Wolmarans
E-mail: 21785716@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc Bioschemistry and Physiology, BSc (Hons) Medical Physiology
Project Title: The effect of Cannabis and Psilocybin on the brain.
Supervisor: Prof B Huisamen; Co-supervisor: Dr Lihle Qulu
Garth Wentley
?E-mail: 21670951@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc Human Life Sciences, BSc (Hons) Medical Physiology
Project Title: Delineating the novel effects of melatonin in differentiated C2C12 myotubes in the presence and absence of pathology
Supervisor: Dr G Maarman
Stephen Southway
?E-mail: 21214328@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: BSc Human Life Science, BSc (Hons) Medical Physiology
Project Title: Evaluating the biphasic effect of metformin in a 3D cardiomyoblast model of insulin resistance.
Supervisor: Dr M Blignaut?
Amy Pretor??ius
E-mail: 22201831@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: ??BSc Medical Bioscience (UWC), BSc Hons Medical Physiology
Project Title: Comparing the effectiveness of Imatinib and Melatonin against Endothelin-1-induced proliferation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells.?
Supervisor: Dr G Maarman
Sesethu Ketse
E-mail: sketse@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: ??BSc (Microbiology and Physiology) and BSc Hons (Molecular Biology)
Project Title: DNA methylation profiling for breast cancer diagnosis in South African womens.
Supervisor: Dr Tarryn Willmer and co-supervisors Dr Lawrence Mabasa (SAMRC) and Prof. Hans Strijdomn
Nokulunga Mlaba
E-mail: 2454241@sun.ac.za
Qualifications: ??BSc (Microbiology and Biochemistry) and BSc Hons (Medical Microbiology)
Project Title: Establishing and characterization of novel AC16 human ventricular spheroid model
Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Blignaut
Lindiwe Malefane ?
E-mail: 27583708@sun.ac.za??
Qualifications: BSc (Human Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) and BSc Hons (Medical Physiology - Cum Laude)??
Project Title: Investigating the effects of Rooibos-enriched, Mitochondrial-targeted Chitosan-alginate Nanoparticles in an MCF-7 breast cancer cell line
Supervisor: Dr Gerald Maarman and Prof. Admire Dube
Tamryne Brink
E-mail: 22555838@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: ??BSc (Biological Sciences), BSc Hons (Medical Physiology- Cum Laude)
Project Title: Investigating the effects of olanzapine on redox status and vascular function in male and female Wistar rats fed a high sucrose medium fat (HSMF) diet.
Supervisor: Dr Shantal. Windvogel, Dr Hanel Sadie- Van Gijsen and Prof. Erna Marais
Natasha Marnewick ??
E-mail: 21617619@sun.ac.za?
Qualifications: BSc (Human Life Sciences with Psychology-Cum Laude) and BSc Honours (Medical Physiology-Cum Laude)???
Project Title: Comparing the effects of the second-generation anti-psychotic drug olanzapine on adipose stem cell function between male and female Wistar rats against the backgrund of high sugar feeding
Supervisor: ?Dr Hanel Sadie- Van Gijsen and co-supervisor Dr Gerald Maarman
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