by admin | Feb 22, 2019 | Fellows
by admin | Feb 22, 2019 | Fellows
by admin | Sep 15, 2017 | Fellows
Prof Dirk Hermanus van Papendorp was born in Pretoria in 1949. He is married to Selomé (Nel) and they have four children and ten grandchildren. He obtained his Medical degree at the University of Pretoria in 1974 and his ECFMG diploma from Philadelphia, USA, the following year. After his internship at the Pretoria Academic Hospital he practiced for 2 years as general practitioner at the Van Riebeeck Medical Centre and Monument Park centre, Pretoria. Thereafter he moved to the Cape Province to continue his studies. He completed his BSc Honours degree (cum laude) at the University of Stellenbosch and later, in 1985 his PhD degree with his dissertation on the subject: Clinical physiological parameters for the evaluation of femur neck fractures’. In 1978 he was appointed as lecturer in the Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch and promoted to senior lecturer in 1980. In 1986 he joined the Physiology Department, University of Pretoria as associate Professor and he was promoted to full Professor and Head of the Department in 1990. He retired as HOD in 2014. During this period he was appointed as Part time District Surgeon, Department of Health; Part time Consultant Osteoporosis clinic, HF Verwoerd Hospital; Principal Medical Officer, Student’s Health Service, UP; non executive Medical Director, Techpulse Technologies (PTY) Ltd and appointed by the Minister of Labour as Medical assessor to assist the Compensation Commissioner in court cases pertaining to injury on duty. Professor van Papendorp is particularly interested in the subject of metabolic bone diseases thus his research interest lies particularly in the field of calcium, osteoporosis, and Vitamin D and of lately,...
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | Fellows, Uncategorized
Prof. Amanda Lochner graduated at the University of Stellenbosch [B.Sc. 1957 (cum Laude); M.Sc. 1959 (cum laude); D.Sc. 1964; Ph.D. 1977]. She was a research fellow in the Department of Medicine, University of Texas, South-Western Medical School, Dallas Texas 1962-1963. On her return to South Africa, she was appointed as a research assistant in the CSIR Degenerative Diseases Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch (1964-1970). From 1970-1987 she was a senior specialist scientist in the MRC Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch. Since 1988 she has been a chief specialist scientist in the MRC Programme for Experimental Biology, Dept of Medical Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch. She was appointed as an Associate Professor at the University of Stellenbosch (ad hominem) in 1990, and as Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Medical Physiology and Biochemistry (University of Stellenbosch) in 1998. Prof Amanda Lochner was President of the Physiology Society of Southern Africa from 1997 till 2001. She was vice-president of the International Society of Pathophysiology 2002-2004. She regularly serves on the evaluation panels of the National Research Foundation. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy and Acta Hungaria Physiologica.Prof Lochner retired in 2006 and has since been employed by the University of Stellenbosch on a contract basis as Extraordinary Professor in the Division of Medical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences. Research interests Elucidation of events in myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion and cardioprotection have formed the major thrust of her research efforts. Current interests are...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Fellows
Prof. David Gray was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East of England and he was educated (BSc and MSc) in England prior to taking up his first job as a research scientist in the Division of Endocrine Physiology and Pharmacology at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill, London. At the NIMR he was privileged to work with John Parsons, one of the pre-eminent researchers of the time in the field of parathyroid hormone physiology. In 1981 he moved to Germany to work at one of the Max-Planck Institutes at the W.G. Kerckhoff Institute for Clinical Research located in Bad Nauheim, just north of Frankfurt. At the Kerckhoff Institute he carried out research into the endocrine control of salt and fluid balance, primarily in birds and during his time there he was again privileged to work with two world renowned physiologists, Eckhart Simon and Ted Hammel. During the period 1986 and 1987 Dave was awarded an overseas scholarship by the Max-Planck Society and completed his PhD at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa (now known as NMMU) where he carried out studies in the field of osmoregulation in sea birds under the guidance of Theunis Erasmus. In 1992 Dave left Germany to return to South Africa, spending two years at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, before joining the Department of General Physiology, which was one of two physiology departments at the time, at Wits. His research interests continued to be in the field of avian osmoregulation, however, following the amalgamation of the two Departments of Physiology into a single department in 1996, the focus...
by admin | Jun 6, 2016 | Fellows
Prof. Huisamen is the chief specialist scientist with the Sa MRC in the Biomedical research and innovation platform and is an associate professor in the Biomedical Sciences department, division of medical physiology of the faculty of medicine and health Sciences at the Stellenbosch university. Prof. Huisamen is internationally recognised for her scientific contribution, with over 60 peer-reviewed journal publications, an array of research collaborations and many local and international conference presentations under her belt, it is no wonder that she is being honoured by the society. She has two research fields of interest whose outcomes may possibly find themselves’ crossing paths further downstream. one focuses purely on basic science research into the cardiovascular complications associated with obesity and insulin resistance, hypertension and type 2 diabetes while the other involves studying potential nutraceuticals that can be used to successfully treat these diseases. the former research project investigates a protein that forms part of the dna repair system, the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (atm) protein. it is the central role player in a genetic disease called ataxia telangiectasia, where the afflicted person expresses atm in very low levels as a truncated, malfunctional protein. these patients have a very high incidence of type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart disease. atm is also a cytosolic signalling protein that her research group has shown is a prerequisite for glucose uptake in cardiomyocytes and are currently attempting to elucidate the importance of this protein in obesity. the nutraceutical projects are pre-clinical studies and aims to (i) characterize mitophagy in the heart With respect to ischemia- reperfusion injury and whether melatonin as antioxidant, could modulate this process, and...
