Division of Medical Biochemistry
About us
The Division of Medical Biochemistry is a preclinical, basic science division in the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences and is associated, either wholly or partly, with a number of advanced research entities. Some such entities are laboratory research groups contained entirely within Division, while some have certain components or personnel falling within the Division, affiliated to other Institutes or Departmental groupings.
Specifically: The Division incorporates the MRC/UCT Research Group for Receptor Biology (co-directed by A/Prof Arieh Katz and Dr Colleen Flanagan, ex-UCT now at WITS, and collaboratively by Medical Biochemistry affiliate Prof Bob Millar in Edinburgh); the MRC/UCT Oesophageal Cancer Research Group (directed by Prof Iqbal Parker); members of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) at UCT (Profs Sturrock, Blackburn, Meissner, Parker, Katz and Dr Leaner); the Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research (CPGR) (directed by Prof Jonathan Blackburn); and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) (Prof Iqbal Parker).