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Healthcare

Bayer and Peking University join forces to drive scientific investigations

10 Jul 2023

Healthcare

Sanofi fully embraces AI and data science for patient breakthroughs

20 Jun 2023

The urgent need for responsible regulation of generative AI

ICT

The urgent need for responsible regulation of generative AI

De Wet Bisschoff, Issued by Stone 26 May 2023

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Healthcare

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Issued by University of Pretoria 14 Feb 2023

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Healthcare

AstraZeneca announces R&D Postdoctoral Challenge winners

3 Nov 2022

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

Healthcare

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

28 Apr 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Menelas Pangolas.

Healthcare

AstraZeneca launches global R&D postdoctoral challenge

17 Mar 2022

Community distribution in Nigeria of ivermectin for onchocerciasis, a disease this drug treats effectively and safely. Photo: Kate Holt/Sightsavers (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Healthcare

Ivermectin: balance of evidence shows no benefit against Covid-19

Nathan Geffen & Elsabé Brits 7 Jul 2021

UKZN and UniZulu researchers discover proteins to fight parasitic disease

Healthcare

UKZN and UniZulu researchers discover proteins to fight parasitic disease

24 Nov 2020

Healthcare

We are using computer models to fight drug resistance

Ozlem Tastan Bishop 13 Dec 2019

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided

Healthcare

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts & Andrew Singer 20 Nov 2019

Africa is home to 92% of malaria cases and 93% of malaria deaths. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Collaboration pushes frontiers of anti-malaria drug regimes

Kelly Chibale & Richard Gordon 19 Nov 2019

Techsys Digital wins new pharmaceutical disruptor Cape Bio Pharms

Marketing & Media

Techsys Digital wins new pharmaceutical disruptor Cape Bio Pharms

Issued by Techsys Digital 15 Nov 2019

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Healthcare

Advances in anti-ageing research: how chemistry could hold the key to better health

Lizzy Ostler 6 Nov 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Healthcare

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Neville Isdell and Kelly Chibale

Healthcare

R18m donation for African-centric medicine research

28 Jun 2019

IBM expands quantum computing program to Africa

ICT

IBM expands quantum computing program to Africa

13 Jun 2019

Professor Valerie Mizrahi. Photo: Robyn Walker/UCT

Healthcare

UCT scientist uses award to fund TB research

10 Jun 2019

Malaria detection campaign in the Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé. Elena

Healthcare

#WorldMalariaDay: What we're doing in Burkina-Faso to help stop it

Elena Gómez Díaz 25 Apr 2019

Bringing AI to the data centre

ICT

Bringing AI to the data centre

Jim Holland 17 Apr 2019

Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock

Healthcare

How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

Ruben Cloete 16 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

Healthcare

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

7 Jan 2019

UCT student receives L'Oréal-Unesco doctoral fellowship

Education

UCT student receives L'Oréal-Unesco doctoral fellowship

7 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

Healthcare

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

There already exist some promising new antibiotic therapies, and more are in the pipeline. However, our economic model prevents researchers from moving them out onto the market.
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Healthcare

Humanity under threat from antibiotic-resistant infections

Gerry Wright 19 Nov 2018

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Healthcare

Putting Nigerian neuroscience research under the microscope

Mahmoud Bukar Maina 4 Sep 2018

Precious Matsoso, director-general: Department of Health

Healthcare

Brics countries join hands to fight TB

2 Jul 2018

New partnership to boost drug discovery for malaria, TB and more in Africa

Healthcare

New partnership to boost drug discovery for malaria, TB and more in Africa

29 Jun 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale

Healthcare

Local scientist makes it onto Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders list

Kim Cloete 24 Apr 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale of UCT's Drug Discovery and Development Unit (H3D)

Healthcare

New partnership works towards new therapeutic solutions for malaria

20 Apr 2018

ICT

Research points to AI driving disruption in analytics space

13 Mar 2018

Researchers use genome data to find MDR TB-fighting compounds

Healthcare

Researchers use genome data to find MDR TB-fighting compounds

24 Aug 2017

Entries for 2018 Bayer Foundation Fellowship programmes now open

Education

Entries for 2018 Bayer Foundation Fellowship programmes now open

29 Jun 2017

Healthcare

Research team releases data on promising anti-malarial

Kim Cloete 2 May 2017

New painkiller could replace morphine: study

Healthcare

New painkiller could replace morphine: study

3 Oct 2016

UCT drug unit named as partner in AMR research

Healthcare

UCT drug unit named as partner in AMR research

21 Sep 2016

Healthcare

H3D makes second malaria drug breakthrough

Kim Cloete 27 Jul 2016

SA pharma still attractive for foreign investors

Healthcare

SA pharma still attractive for foreign investors

29 Jun 2016

Johnson & Johnson's new global public health innovation space in Cape Town

Healthcare

J&J launches public health innovations space for Africa

Nicci Botha 8 Apr 2016

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

Healthcare

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

3 Dec 2015

New antimalarial compound could treat malaria in single dose

Healthcare

New antimalarial compound could treat malaria in single dose

19 Jun 2015

New drug research to help fish farming industry

Healthcare

New drug research to help fish farming industry

15 Jun 2015

Pfizer, NWU sign MOU for potential collaboration on pre-clinical R&D

Healthcare

Pfizer, NWU sign MOU for potential collaboration on pre-clinical R&D

3 Jul 2014

From morphine to Cipro: History of drug development chronicled

Healthcare

From morphine to Cipro: History of drug development chronicled

Bill Hathaway 29 Apr 2014

Orphan drugs market offers big financial incentives

Healthcare

Orphan drugs market offers big financial incentives

2 Apr 2014

Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in SA

Healthcare

Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in SA

Tamar Kahn 22 Jan 2014