Awards
Professor Clive Gray - Awards and Grants
| Award | Dates | Project Title |
| South African Medical Research Council Gold Award | 20 Feb 2025 | The Gold award category recognition is given to accomplished senior scientists who have made seminal contributions that have had a profound impact, particularly to those residing in developing nations. |
| Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice-Chancellor’s Research for Impact Award | 31 Oct 2024 | Prestigious Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice-Chancellor’s Research for Impact Award for 2024. |
| Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award | 2023 | The prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award, which recognises world-class research that has far-reaching impact. The fellowship and its accompanying R2.5-million grant is awarded to scholars of the highest calibre who are engaged in cutting-edge and internationally significant research that has particular application to the advancement of knowledge, teaching, research and development in South Africa and beyond. |
Dr Doty Ojwach - Awards and Grants
| Award/Funding Body/Grant Name | Dates | Presentation/Project Title |
| New Investigator award-Conferences on retroviruses and opportunistic infections | 9-13 March 2025 | First-line Regimen Antiretroviral drugs disrupt placental macrophage function and vascular development, which can be rescued by exogenous FXIIIA1-Poster |
| The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research - Cambridge University | 9-13 Sept 2024 | First-line Regimen Antiretroviral drugs disrupt placental macrophage function and vascular development, which can be rescued by exogenous FXIIIA1 |
| 3rd Lindau Nobel online sciathon team project-winner | 28-30 April 2023 | Phototherapy for the Treatment of Endometriosis (video recording) |
| Female Science Talents-award | 01 -31 Jan 2023 | 1-year mentorship, 2-times career training in Germany, and oral presentation opportunity at Berlin Falling Walls 2023 |
| 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | 25-30 June 2023 | Phototherapy for the Treatment of Endometriosis (Oral and video recording) |
| UK-SAMRC: RFA-GIPD-03-2024 | Jan 2025 - Dec 2028 | The impact of antiretroviral drugs on placental vascular development and macrophage function. |
| AREF-312-OJWA-S-C102-Seed grant | 06 Jan 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 | Exploring Macrophage Function in Maternal HIV and Antiretroviral Drugs on Placental Vascular Development |
| RP10094-SAMRC-SIR | 01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025 | Mechanisms by which maternal HIV, CMV infection and antiretroviral therapy lead to adverse birth outcomes |
| PSTD2204285217-NRF | 01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024 | Mechanisms by which maternal HIV, HCMV infection and antiretroviral therapy impacts on the placenta leading to adverse birth outcomes |
| COB- Travelling Fellowship JCSTF23081194 | 01 Feb 2024 - 29 Mar 2024 | Investigating Macrophage Characteristics in Pre-term and Term Placentae during Maternal HIV Infection and Antiretroviral Therapy Treatment |
| Africa Oxford Initiative (AFOX)- Travelling Fellowship | 01 Feb 2024 - 29 Mar 2024 | Investigating Macrophage Characteristics in Pre-term and Term Placentae during Maternal HIV Infection and Antiretroviral Therapy Treatment |
| AREF- 325-OJWA-F-C0914-research development (RDF) | 01 Oct 2022 - 31 Oct 2023 | Characterizing macrophages in term placentae exposed to maternal HIV and human cytomegalovirus co-infection (2022-2023) |
Dr Carine Kunsevi-Kilola- Awards and Grants
| Award Name | Dates | Presentation Title |
| African Post-doctoral Training Initiative Fellowship by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in partnership with the US National Institute of Health (NIH) - Cohort 3 | 31 March 2023 | African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) - Fogarty International Center @ NIH |
| The Global Health Travel Award from Keystone Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, USA | 16 Jan 2020 | A2 Tuberculosis: Immunity and Immune Evasion conference |
| L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa: Young Talents, 21 Nov 2019, Dakar, Senegal | 21 Nov 2019 | 2019 Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Awards L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme |
| Doctoral Scholarship: Extended support for scholarships and fellowships | 2018 | |
| Stellenbosch University Scientific Travel award | 2017 | Changes in peripheral T-cell subsets during Tuberculosis-Diabetes Co-morbidity |
| The Global Health Travel Award from Keystone Symposium Colorado, USA | 28 February - 3 March 2016 | Changes in peripheral T-cell subsets during Tuberculosis-Diabetes Co-morbidity |
| Harry Crossley Laboratory Consumable Grant | 2015 | |
| Scholarship Award for the 1st IUIS-FAIS southern African Immunology Workshop combined with the 6th Infectious Diseases in Africa (IDA) Symposium and African Flow Cytometry Workshop | 20-30 October 2015 | Characterization of HAM and blood MDM responses to M.tb in TB household contacts with and without type 2 diabetes |
Brandon Antony Paarwater - Awards and Grants
| Award/Funding Body/Grant Name | Dates | Awarding Body/Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| National Research Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship | 2022-Present | National Research Foundation |
| Poliomyelitis Research Foundation Bursary | 2022-2024 | Poliomyelitis Research Foundation |
| National Institutes of Health, 1R21 HD103498-01 | 2020-2024 | Mechanisms by which trophoblasts recruit T cells to the placental villi during maternal HIV and CMV co-infection (PI: Gray/Chakraborty) |
| Harry Crossley Project Funding | 2023 | Mechanisms by which trophoblasts recruit T cells to the placental villi during maternal HIV and CMV co-infection |
Lesedi Dikhoba - Awards and Grants
| Award Name | Dates | Awarding Body |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Infectious Diseases (IDM) Departmental Bursary | 2022-2025 | University of Cape Town |
| Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Inter-Bursary Support (CSIR-IBS) Scholarship | 2023-2024 | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
| Poliomyelitis Research Funding (PRF) | 2022-2024 | Poliomyelitis Research Foundation |
| Doctoral Research Scholarship | 2023 | University of Cape Town |
| Doctoral Vice-Chancellor Research Scholarship | 2023 | University of Cape Town |
Nicole Prins - Awards and Grants
| Award Name | Dates | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific Travel Grant from Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science | 2024 | Poster presentation: Cytomegalovirus and HIV exposure in premature infants |
| Poliomyelitis Research Foundation (PRF) | 2024-2025 | Immunological responses to congenital and postnatal cytomegalovirus infection in very low birth weight and premature neonates at Tygerberg Hospital, a prospective cohort study |
| Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) | 2023 | Examining Immune Cells in Placental Villous Tissue |