The Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom would like to congratulate Dr Glenda Gray and Dr Graeme Meintjes on receiving prestigious awards from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).
Dr Glenda Gray, the recipient of the Outstanding African Scientist award, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work on the epidemiology and biology of HIV as well as her advocacy work for improving the care of HIV-infected individuals are well recognised. Dr Gray is the founding Executive Director of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Cape Town, South Africa.
Together with her team she has demonstrated relevant outcomes on prevention of mother-to-child transmission, as well as mortality of infants diagnosed with HIV, which has changed international treatment guidelines for children.
Dr Graeme Meintjes who received the Rising Star award, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Adult Infectious Diseases physician based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He jointly established and ran the Infectious Diseases Unit at GF Jooste Hospital in Cape Town from 2004. In 2012 he became a full member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at UCT.
The EDCTP awards recognise a Rising Star scientist (scientists ≤ 45 years of age) which includes mid-career researchers who have made significant achievements in their field and who will continue to become leaders in their research field. The Outstanding Scientist Award is for senior researchers who have made outstanding achievements in their field and who are recognised as research leaders in Africa.
In addition to their scientific excellence, the awardees will have made major contributions to the EDCTP objectives of strengthening clinical research capacity in Africa and supporting South-South and North-South networking.
The awards are open to scientists from sub-Saharan Africa and who have spent the majority of their careers based in Africa working in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria within the scope of the EDCTP programme.
For more information please contact:
Nthabi Maoela
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