Wits Department of Physiology

02/06/2026

Thank you to all the staff and students who participated in the Reach for a Dream initiative and wore their slippers on Friday, 29th May!

A big thank you to Vernice, Andrea K and Glenda for providing the lovely treats for the hot chocolate station.

02/06/2026

Congrats to Andrea, Jessica, Robyn, Keafon and collaborators on their latest publication

https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Jacqueline+La+Grange-Mostert

28/05/2026

Congrats to Karabo, Dhuriya and Courtney for great talks in the free paper competition at PainSA.

Congrats Courtney for taking home the prize for best talk! 👏

Peter also gave a plenary talk that was well received.

28/05/2026

Members of Brain Function Research Group, Pain Lab participated in PainSA this past weekend weekend. Here they are with friends from UCT - Romy, Tory and Gill.

27/05/2026

Congrats to Walter, Andrea and collaborators on their latest publication

We developed a low-cost, stratified subterranean trap for live capture of soil macrofauna in the sandy, dryland soils of the southern Kalahari. The subterranean traps sampled below-ground taxa and li...

14/05/2026

Congrats to IMPRI on their latest publication.

And a big congratulations to Adalayne on her first first-author paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014480026000250

11/05/2026

Congrats to the CPGRU on their latest publication

Background Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) is the gold-standard non-invasive measure of arterial stiffness. Technological advances have led to the development of newer devices for measuring PWV, resulting in the discontinuation of earlier models. However, it is unclear whether PWV measurem...

08/05/2026

Congrats to Andrea and collaborators on their latest publication

Although peer review is the fundamental process that strengthens the scientific method (Lock, 1985; Rowland, 2002), it is hindered by several well-recogniz

30/04/2026

Congrats to Janette and collaborators on their latest publication

Strengthening antivenom access in South Africa: Regulatory priorities and policy actions Authors R Majeed University of Pretoria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1960-4210 J Bester University of the Witwatersrand https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8931-9194 MA Strydom University of Pretoria https://orcid.org/00...

13/04/2026

Congrats to Patane, Karine and collaborators on their latest publication

ness and CVD risk. Design: A longitudinal analysis from the Ndlovu Cohort Study, South Africa. Methods: The study included 705 participants (325 PWH, 81% on ART at baseline, 19% initiating ART at baseline, and 380 HIV-negative people. Demographic data, HIV/ART status, and covariates were collected a...