Opinion and features
World Cancer Day: Experts focus on key challenges in treatment of cancer
Personalised and timely care, the battle between cancer and the immune system, and standardised, evidence-based guidelines to tackle cervical cancer are among...
Awards and milestones
70 years of impact – celebrating our legacy
Seventy years ago, Stellenbosch University brought about a vision to create a place where the advancement of human health became the foundation on which...
Awards and milestones
Prof Chegou elected as fellow of African Academy of Sciences
Prof Novel Chegou of Stellenbosch University’s recently created Division of Immunology, which he currently leads as acting head, has been elected as a Fellow of...
Medicine and health
Study shows role of serotonin abnormalities in cot deaths
Cot deaths, or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), are tragic and often lack a clear medical explanation.
Findings from the Safe Passage Study (SPS), recently...
Awards and milestones
Two FMHS professors join academy of outstanding scientists
Two senior academics from Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were among the 45 leading scholars inducted as Members of the...
Institutional news
SU honorary doctorate for world-renowned epidemiologist, infectious disease expert
Stellenbosch University (SU) bestowed an honorary doctorate on world-renowned epidemiologist and infectious disease expert Prof Salim Safurdeen Abdool Karim at...
Media release
SU to cap one of youngest doctors in SA
On 11 December, 21-year-old David Obagbuwa will graduate with an MBChB from Stellenbosch University (SU), becoming one of the youngest medical doctors to...
Medicine and health
Groundbreaking Life Pod achieves first successful organ donation
The “Avengers of Medicine” recently assembled in the Save7 “Life Pod” to bring life-saving and life-changing organs to more than eight transplant patients...
Media release
Under Southern Skies: How stargazing is shaping mental health research in South Africa
As mental health challenges rise across South Africa, a pioneering research project is turning to an unexpected ally: the night sky.
Researchers from...
Media release
New evidence questions the benefit of calcium supplements in pregnancy for preventing pre-eclampsia
An updated Cochrane review has found that calcium supplementation has no effect on pre-eclampsia, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of calcium in...