The office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Stellenbosch University (SU) is currently in a transitional phase. With the retirement of the incumbent, Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen (top left), being planned for the end of 2017, the...

SU took home three prestigious accolades at the annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/South32 Awards. Prof Shahida Moosa, Prof Yin-Zhe Ma and the Innovation and Commercialisation Division were recognised as winners in their...

The unit is a division of the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Campus. We work very closely with the Department of Haematopathology and interact regularly on...

​The fifth-year medical student, Muhammed Sheik, was awarded the title of "Best African Qur'an Reciter" at the prestigious Bahrain International Hifz Memorisation Competition last year. Sheik was invited to take part in the international...

Professor Soraya Bardien of has been awarded the prestigious Higher Education Resource Services South Africa (HERS-SA) Women Leaders Award in the Science category. Bardien leads sub-Saharan Africa's only research group investigating the...

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SU officially opened the Medical Morphology Learning Centre (MMLC), establishing Africa's largest and most technologically advanced facility of its kind. The MMLC blends cutting-edge technology with traditional anatomical resources...

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Discussions of books in the company of their writers form a central and exciting element of the SU Woordfees, and this year's collection certainly has something worthwhile for book lovers. History, of course, plays an important role at most...

The Division is part of the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Campus. Our clinical services are based at the Gastroenterology Unit of Tygerberg Hospital. A full range...