The Faculty of Health Sciences invites you to a guest lecture by Dr Catherine Kegakilwe Koofhethile.
Dr Koofhethile is a Motswana researcher based at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA under the leadership of Professor Max Essex. She is also a Research Associate at Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute. Her current research focuses on understanding the architecture; size and structure of the reservoir in HIV infected individuals undertaking antiretroviral treatment in Botswana. She uses a combination of Immunological and Virological assays to monitor proviral reservoir in HIV infected individuals. She has BSc in Medical Microbiology from University of Surrey, MSc in Immunology from University of Birmingham, UK and a PhD in Immunology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.