Meet our Staff

Academic

Prof Alan Christoffels

Director & DST/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics & Health Genomics, SA MRC Bioinformatics Unit

Prof Nicki Tiffin ​

Deputy Director

Assoc. Prof Gordon Harkins

Director of the Centre of Excellence in HIV Prevention, UWC

Dr Dominique Anderson

Senior Lecturer

Dr Ruben Cloete

Senior Lecturer

Anja Bedeker

Research Associate – SANBI

Technical

Peter van Heusden

Researcher

Quinton Coert

Software Developer
 

Campbell Rae

Web Developer

Administrative

Saajidah Berghardien

Admin Assistant

Fungiwe Mpithi

Admin Officer

Ferial Mullins

Finance Administrator

Junita Williams

Marketing Admin Officer 

PHA4GE Secretariat

Michael Bridger

Manager – PHA4G3  Business developer

Rangarirai Matima

Communications Specialist – PHA4GE

Tracey Calvert-Joshua

Scientific Lead – PHA4GE

Jamie Southgate

Communications Officer – PHA4GE

Nawaal Weitz

Project Manager – PHA4GE

Gabrielle Arendse

Administrator – PHA4GE

Keagan Brown

Training co-ordinator – PHA4GE

Farzaana Diedericks

Research Trainer – PHA4GE

ISO-In-A-Box Project (Wellcome Trust funded)

Sibongiseni Msipa

Junior workforce coordinator

Sophia Bam

Senior workforce coordinator

Buhle Ntozini

Bioinformatics developer

SANBI Affiliated Academics

Prof. Placide Mbala

Prof. Arun Pandurangan

Dr. Nobubelo Ngandu

Dr. Alice Matimba

Dr. Sam Oyola