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PHA4GE comes to Cape Town for 2023 The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) will draw some 100 participants from 32 countries to Cape Town for its 2023 Conference, to be hosted by the Universi...

African experts discuss how to improve disease surveillance using pathogen genomics and bioinformatics The University of the Western Cape (UWC), through the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), is playing a leading role at the ‘Beyond COVID-19: Pathogen ...

UWC Professor elected to the Royal Society of South Africa Professor Alan Christoffels, from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), has received the royal stamp of approval following his recent election as a fellow of the Royal Socie...

South African universities aim to strengthen their genomic sequencing capacities A recent showcase at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) highlighted new opportunities for gene sequencing in South Africa and Africa. Just because pathogen genomic sequenc...

Data management a pillar of stopping a pandemic or other disease outbreaks Last week, more than a dozen lab technicians and scientific staff from around Africa attended a training session on pathogen genomics and data management at the University of th...

UWC computational biologist collaborated with Nobel Prize winner Biologist and University of the Western Cape (UWC) graduate Janet Kelso worked side-by-side with the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient, Svante Pääbo...

Some coronaviruses kill, while others cause a common cold. We are getting closer to knowing why It’s hard to imagine a time when “coronavirus” wasn’t a household word. But for a long time, this family of viruses had merited very little attention. Be...

UWC explores future collaborations with Swiss delegation Acting Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Professor Vivienne Lawack, hosted a high-level Swiss delegation this month to explore further coll...

UWC Provides Continental Support for COVID-19 Surveillance The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI), has supported African countries during the past two ye...

UWC Team wins Cluster Challenge A UWC student team, the “Parallelizers”, were winners at the CHPC (Centre for High Performance Computing) 2021 Student Cluster Competition, and will go on to compete...

International Acclaim for UWC Doctoral Candidate An article by a University of the Western Cape (UWC) doctoral graduate has been lauded by the prestigious science journal, Pathology & Oncology Research (POR). Dr Cath...

Selecting For Success: International Studies Shed Light On The Evolution Of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Of Concern In December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic entered a new phase, with the rapid emergence of the alpha, beta and gamma variants in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. A tea...

UWC partners with WHO on a new genomic surveillance centre to monitor disease outbreaks beyond Covid-19 in Africa The World Health Organization Africa, together with South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is launching a new Regional Ce...

Making Research Count: UWC's Research Week 2021 tackles COVID-19 Back in 2020, when the prophesied apocalypse started engulfing the planet, scientists and researchers were called upon to suit up as superheroes to save humanity. Many abandoned...

World Health Organization (WHO) Online Briefing with UWC Prof Alan Christoffels Please join the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Media briefing. The virtual press conference is on-the-record and it is an opportunity for you to ask questions on the COV...

UWC Academic Donates Food Care Packs to Students Food security is a major challenge for many university students in the developing world, including at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), and it will take joint efforts of...