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Awards and milestones
70 years of remarkable milestones: FMHS celebrates its legacy of impact
Medicine and health
Tygerberg-SU surgeons first to perform novel limb reconstruction in South Africa
A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that...
Institutional news
Infectious disease specialist appointed BMRI director
The internationally renowned infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director...
Media release
Urgent action needed to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities
In South Africa, thousands of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are being left behind because they are not identified early enough to...
Awards and milestones
Van der Zalm awarded EDCTP’s Female Scientific Leadership Prize for sub-Saharan Africa
Paediatrics and Child Health Associate Professor Marieke van der Zalm of the Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre (DTTC) is this year’s recipient of the Female...
New Miss SA and SU alumna is passionate about education and speech therapy
Speech therapist and Stellenbosch University (SU) alumna, Qhawekazi Mazelani, was recently crowned as the new Miss South Africa. Now she is on a mission to be...
Arts, languages and social sciences
HeartWorks: Fine arts and biomedical students reconsider the human heart
When thinking about the human heart, how can artists represent this multi-faceted organ to include all its complexities? Can art represent the heart both...