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FACULTY OF health scienceS
a meeting of the South African Food Lab, a working
group working towards solutions for Food Security in the
country. Baheya Najaar represented the Division at the
Breastfeeding Conference (organized by the Department
of Health) that resulted in the Tshwane declaration on
breast feeding.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors (1 Discovery)
10
Associate Professors (1 MRC)
9
Senior Lecturers (1 MRC)
13
Lecturers (including part-time)
15
Postdoctoral and Research Staff
29
Technical and Support Staff
25
Admin and Clerical Staff
9
Total
110
Students
Doctoral
41
Master’s
79
M Phil
25
Honours
40
PG Diploma
18
Undergraduate
1536
Total
1739
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor Lauriston Kellaway
Head of Department; Models of neuroinflammation, stress
and brain function, in vivo and in vitro visual cortical
mechanisms
Professor Wayne Derman
Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine
(RUESSM) :
Skeletal muscle dysfunction in chronic disease; exercise
training in chronic disease
Professor Sue Kidson
Developmental biology; melanocytes and hypopigmentary
disorders; eye development and glaucoma
Professor Mike Lambert
RUESSM: Fatigue management, recovery after exercise,
muscle damage, regeneration, overload, heart rate,
human performance
Professor Estelle V. Lambert
RUESSM: Physical activity epidemiology and chronic
diseases of lifestyle; effect of ante-natal nutrition on
subsequent health; integration of metabolism and neuro-
endocrine control of fatigue during exercise, energy
balance and obesity
Professor Graham J. Louw
Human growth; medical education; skeletal analysis
Professor Alan G. Morris
Human evolution; forensic anthropology, skeletal biology
of early peoples in southern Africa; history of physical
anthropology
Professor Timothy D. Noakes
Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science and
Director of UCT/MRC; RUESSM: A neural governor that
prevents the development of myocardial ischaemia during
maximal exercise; neural mechanisms that regulate fatigue
during exercise; the aetiology, prevention and treatment of
hyponatraemia during prolonged endurance exercise
Professor Vivienne Russell
Neurophysiology: Development, stress, exercise and
vulnerability to neuronal injury; Attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder; Depression
Professor Martin P. Schwellnus
RUESSM: Epidemiology of sports injuries; biomechanical
factors associatedwith sporting injuries, medical conditions
that occur as a result of exercise training or competition
Associate Professor Andrew Bosch
RUESSM: muscle glycogen; fatigue; training; performance
Associate Professor Malcolm Collins
RUESSM: genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying
performance and overuse injuries. Chief Specialist
Scientist, MRC
Associate Professor Tania Douglas
Director of the MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit
(MIRU); biomedical engineering, image processing
Associate Professor Dirk M. Lang
Nervous system development; axon growth and
regeneration
Associate Professor Ernesta Meintjes
MIRU: NRF chair; magnetic resonance imaging
Associate Professor Edward Ojuka
Signaling mechanisms in exercise-induced mitochondrial
biogenesis and GLUT4 expression in skeletal muscle
Associate Professor Sharon Prince
Senior Lecturer; The cell and molecular biology of cancer and
the identification of novel targets for anti-cancer drugs, with
special focus on the T-box transcription factors Tbx2 and Tbx3.