Academic staff
Marianne Cronje
Professor and Head of School | Academic Thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Induction of apoptosis in cancer by novel anti-cancer compounds | Marianne.Cronje@wits.ac.za
Ikechukwu Achilonu
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Biochemistry and structural biology of druggable proteins of pathogenic organisms | Ikechukwu.Achilonu@wits.ac.za
Angela Botes
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Microbiology and Mycology | Research field: Environmental, medical and molecular mycology| Angela.Botes@wits.ac.za
Gustav Bouwer
Associate Professor | Academic thrust: Microbiology and Biotechnology | Research field: Invertebrate Pathology, Microbial Pest Control, Agricultural Biotechnology | Gustav.Bouwer@wits.ac.za
Sandile Buthelezi
Lecturer | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Cancer Molecular Biology - with an interest in the regulation and transduction of signals from the tumour microenvironment of solid tumours, and their role in the resistance of therapeutic interventions| sandile.buthelezi@wits.ac.za
Leonard Damelin
Senior Lecturer | Academic Thrust: Microbiology and Biotechnology | Research field: Biotechnology, Biological Chemistry, Broad-spectrum metal-based microbicides and antivirals, Novel phage-based approaches in live microbicide development | leonard.damelin@wits.ac.za
Debbie De Assis Rosa
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Immunogenetics and Pharmacogenetics in host immune responses to viral infections| Debbie.Deassisrosa@wits.ac.za
Pieter De Maayer
Associate Professor | Academic thrust: Microbiology and Biotechnology | Research field: Extremophile Genomics and Biotechnology, Microbial Evolution and Ecology| Pieter.Demaayer@wits.ac.za
Sylvia Fanucchi
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Intermolecular interactions, biochemistry, biophysics and protein structural biology | Sylvia.Fanucchi@wits.ac.za
Nikki Gentle
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Applied Bioinformatics | Research field: Immunogenetics and Functional Genomics | Nikki.Gentle@wits.ac.za
Mahtaab Hayat
Lecturer | Academic thrust: Applied Bioinformatics | Research field: Breast cancer, GWAS and polygenic risk scores | mahtaab.hayat@wits.ac.za
Rupal Jivan
Lecturer | Academic thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Long non-coding RNA function, DNA damage pathway regulation in cancer | Rupal.Jivan@wits.ac.za
Mandeep Kaur
Professor | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Anticancer screening, Bioinformatics, Biomarker discovery, Cancer stem cells, Drug resistance | Mandeep.Kaur@wits.ac.za
Tiisetso Lephoto
Lecturer | Academic thrust: Microbiology and Biotechnology | Research field: Characterisation of insect pathogenic bacteria symbiotically associated with Entomopathogenic nematodes | Tiisetso.Lephoto@wits.ac.za
Demetra Mavri-Damelin
Associate Professor | Academic thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Cancer cell metabolism and chemotherapy, gene regulation and pharmacogenetics | Demetra.Mavri-Damelin@wits.ac.za
Vanessa Meyer
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Member of the Molecular Biosciences: Health for Africa Research Thrust | Research field: Immunogenetics and Functional Genomics and Metabolomics in host immune responses to bacterial and viral infections | Vanessa.Meyer@wits.ac.za
Natalya Nikitina
Associate Professor | Academic thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Chicken embryology. Sex determination in birds. Transgenic chickens for agriculture and pharmaceutical purposes | Natalya.Nikitina@wits.ac.za
Maria Paximadis
Senior Lecturer | Academic thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Immunogenetics and understanding the correlates of protective immunity to HIV-1 | Maria.Paximadis@wits.ac.za
Yasien Sayed
Professor | Academic thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Protein Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Biological Thermodynamics, Enzymology, HIV Proteins | Yasien.Sayed@wits.ac.za
Timothy Sibanda
Associate Professor | Academic thrust: Microbiology and Biotechnology | Research field: Exploitation of crop wild relatives microbiome for induced stress resilience in cultivated food crops | Timothy.Sibanda@wits.ac.za
Eloise van der Merwe
Senior Lecturer | Academic Thrust: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Research field: Signal transduction, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, biomarker and drug discovery | eloise.vandermerwe@wits.ac.za
Khethelo Xulu
Lecturer | Academic Thrust: Genetics and Developmental Biology | Research field: Neuroimmuno-psychiatric-genetics and the intersection with infectious diseases and metabolic syndrome | khethelo.xulu@wits.ac.za