Jazmin Conway (University of Plymouth, UK), a 2nd year doctoral candidate of the SA/UK ADD Hub Consortium , attended the 4th International Workshop for Early Career Researchers organized by iimena (integration of Informatics and Metabolic Engineering for the discovery of Novel Antibiotics). The workshop was themed around Genome-mining for Natural Products, and sought to equip […]

We are proud to share the recent contribution of four peer-reviewed publications our researchers have made. Prof Dorrington appeared as last author on a Literature Review, published in Chemical Society Review, which addresses the challenges of finding antivirals for agents that may lead to the next pandemic. She also co-authored an article in Marine Drugs, […]

We congratulate Gaberialla Solomons, a student of the Dorrington Lab, who graduated at this year’s Graduation Ceremony. She was also recognized for her dedication and hard work, receiving the Departmental award for Top Microbiology student. During the week’s celebrations, a world-class epidemiologist, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, received an honorary doctoral degree from Rhodes University in recognition […]

Prof Dorrington shares with us her expert opinion on all matters related to the Pandemic in Straight Talk with Prof Dorrington. This social awareness campaign aimed to debunk common misbeliefs around Covid and the vaccination, and make accessible accurate information to the public in this series of interviews.  Trust me, you don’t want COVID-19. How […]

Read the full article here. “Rhodes University will lead an international research collaboration that seeks to discover and accelerate the development of new antibiotics. The three-year, £1.5 million project, funded by the Newton Fund through the Antibiotic Accelerator Initiative of the United Kingdom (UK) Medical Research Council (MRC) and South African (SA) MRC, aims to […]