Job Company: University of the Witwatersrand

We are looking for two postdoctoral fellows who will bridge the gap between the lab and the clinic through the development of new software tools that will relate medical and genetic data to disease risk and outcome. The first role is a bioinformatician, who will search for pathogenic variants and biological markers though the analysis of new genetic sequence data that we are collecting from local African populations. [More]

The ERICA-SA project will utilise lifestyle data and biological samples collected by the Johannesburg Cancer Study (JCS) from 20,000 African cancer patients to investigate the causes of cancer and to enhance scientific research capacity in South Africa. This will be the largest study of its kind in Africa. ERICA - SA will support three PhD students and two Postdoctoral fellows with a background in genetics... [More]

The Human Heredity and Health in Africa Consortium (H3A) and GSK’s Africa NCD Open Lab are planning a joint project to study the extent of variation in ADME genes in African populations and explore the impact and possible pharmacological effect of key variants. The project will be based at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, with collaborators at GSK and at other partners in H3A.  [More]

We are strengthening our research team to build critical mass to explore genomic, transcriptomic and epidemiological data related to disease susceptibility and treatment in African populations. Doctoral bursaries and postdoctoral fellowships are available for the following research projects: 1. Exploring the impact African genomic variation and environmental factors on health (NRF...more... [More]