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Nzimande calls for enhanced tech adoption in developing countries

Technology

Nzimande calls for enhanced tech adoption in developing countries

9 Sep 2025

A learner holds up trading cards featuring some of the SuperScientists. This cartoon series, created by Justin Yarrow with a team of local scientists, illustrators and designers, is based on real-life African scientists. Photos: Justin Yarrow/SuperScientists

Education

Biologist turns real-life African scientists into superheroes

Ihsaan Haffejee 15 Jul 2025

Distinguished UCT professor joins elite group at US science academy

Education

Distinguished UCT professor joins elite group at US science academy

8 May 2025

Singularity Summit 2024 brings mind-bending exponential technologies to Africa

Events & Conferencing

Singularity Summit 2024 brings mind-bending exponential technologies to Africa

Issued by Mann Made 7 Nov 2024

Google's vision for AI depends on the prompt

Cloud

Google's vision for AI depends on the prompt

Lindsey Schutters 25 Jul 2024

AI is slowly making its way into advanced pharmacology, but will need investor patience.

Data & Analytics

Forget chat bots, AI is helping out in drug discovery and development

Lindsey Schutters 17 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied.

Pharmaceuticals

Bayer and Peking University join forces to drive scientific investigations

10 Jul 2023

Medtech

Sanofi fully embraces AI and data science for patient breakthroughs

20 Jun 2023

The urgent need for responsible regulation of generative AI

Technology

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

Malaria

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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Medical Research

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.

Medical Research

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)

Covid-19

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

Medical Research

UKZN and UniZulu researchers discover proteins to fight parasitic disease

24 Nov 2020

Pharmaceuticals

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

Pharmaceuticals

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

Malaria

Collaboration pushes frontiers of anti-malaria drug regimes

Kelly Chibale & Richard Gordon 19 Nov 2019

Techsys Digital wins new pharmaceutical disruptor Cape Bio Pharms

Digital

Techsys Digital wins new pharmaceutical disruptor Cape Bio Pharms

Issued by Techsys Digital 15 Nov 2019

Shutterstock/Lightspring

Medical Research

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

Pharmaceuticals

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

Medical Research

R18m donation for African-centric medicine research

28 Jun 2019

IBM expands quantum computing program to Africa

Data & Analytics

IBM expands quantum computing program to Africa

13 Jun 2019

Professor Valerie Mizrahi. Photo: Robyn Walker/UCT

Tuberculosis

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

Malaria

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

Elena Gómez Díaz 25 Apr 2019

Bringing AI to the data centre

Data & Analytics

Bringing AI to the data centre

Jim Holland 17 Apr 2019

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

Tuberculosis

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

Trends

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

7 Jan 2019

UCT student receives L'Oréal-Unesco doctoral fellowship

Higher Education

UCT student receives L'Oréal-Unesco doctoral fellowship

7 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

Medical Research

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.
(Shutterstock)

Healthcare

Humanity under threat from antibiotic-resistant infections

Gerry Wright 19 Nov 2018

Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock

Medical Research

Putting Nigerian neuroscience research under the microscope

Mahmoud Bukar Maina 4 Sep 2018

Precious Matsoso, director-general: Department of Health

Tuberculosis

Brics countries join hands to fight TB

2 Jul 2018

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

Pharmaceuticals

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

29 Jun 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale

Medical Research

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)

Malaria

New partnership works towards new therapeutic solutions for malaria

20 Apr 2018

Data & Analytics

Research points to AI driving disruption in analytics space

13 Mar 2018

Researchers use genome data to find MDR TB-fighting compounds

Medical Research

Researchers use genome data to find MDR TB-fighting compounds

24 Aug 2017

Entries for 2018 Bayer Foundation Fellowship programmes now open

Higher Education

Entries for 2018 Bayer Foundation Fellowship programmes now open

29 Jun 2017

Malaria

Research team releases data on promising anti-malarial

Kim Cloete 2 May 2017

New painkiller could replace morphine: study

Medical Research

New painkiller could replace morphine: study

3 Oct 2016

UCT drug unit named as partner in AMR research

Medical Research

UCT drug unit named as partner in AMR research

21 Sep 2016

Malaria

H3D makes second malaria drug breakthrough

Kim Cloete 27 Jul 2016

SA pharma still attractive for foreign investors

Pharmaceuticals

SA pharma still attractive for foreign investors

29 Jun 2016

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

Medical Research

J&J launches public health innovations space for Africa

Nicci Botha 8 Apr 2016

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

Hospital Groups

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

3 Dec 2015