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Project Title: Aptamer Conjugated Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targetted Delivery Of An Antiretroviral Drug To The Lymph Nodes
Collaborators: Prof Thirumala Govender
Funding: UKZN Nanotechnology Platform
Project Title: Impact of HIV, Antiretroviral Therapy and TB Genotype on Survival in MDR and XDR TB in a HIV positive adult South African cohort.
Collaborators: Neel Gandhi and his team from Emory University School of Medicine, and KolekaMlisana.
Funding: NIH (non-IND study)
Project Title: KwaZulu-Natal HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance Study.
Collaborators: Yunus Moosa (University of KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa; Vincent Marconi and his team from Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Daniel Kuritzkes (Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA); with researchers from University of Colorado, Denver, and Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Funding: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (non-IND study)
Project Title: Zidovudine (AZT) resistance in pregnant patients enrolled in the dual therapy arm of the PMTCT program
Principal Investigator: Reshmi Samuel
Collaborators: Roger Paredes (IrsiCaixaRetrovirology Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain) and Michelle Gordan (HPP, UKZN)
Funding: NHLSRT and MRC
Project Title: Assessment of several synthetic peptides for anti-HIV activity
Collaborators: Gert Kruger
Funding: India-Brazil-South Africa Trilateral Cooperation in Science & Technology, NRF, K-RITH, MRC. Sample testing on-going.Four papers published and four being drafted.
Project Title: Inhibition of HIV-1 Encapsidation by Targeted Poly-ribonucleotide Decoys: A Novel Nanoparticle Approach
Principal Investigators: RaveenParboosing
Collaborator: Gert Kruger.
Funding: Discovery Foundation and NRF
Project Title: Association between clinical correlates and CMV viral load
Researchers: Department of Paediatrics, UKZN, Kerusha Govender
Funding: Discovery Foundation, NHLS Research Trust
Project Title: Prevalence of HBV infection in infants in KZN, South Africa
Researchers: Nokukhanya Msomi – Virology MMed
Funding: NHLS Research Trust
Project Title: To evaluate the end point of Herpes Simplex Virus in cell culture using TCID50 and comparing it to real time qualitative PCR.
Researchers: Subitha Govender, BSC Hons, Dr Pravi Moodley
Funding: UKZN, College of Health Sciences
Project Title: Validation of a two-spot method of dried blood spot specimen processing prior to HIV polymerase chain reaction
Researchers: Dr Kerusha Govender- Virology MMed
Funding: Virology, KZN
Project Title: HIV-associated Hepatic Tuberculosis in South Africa
Researchers: Lilishia Gounder Virology MMed, Pravikrishnen Moodley
Collaborator: Paul K. Drain- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Andrew J. Hickey-University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa -Department of Infectious Diseases, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine
Funding: Department of Infectious Diseases, UKZN
Project Title: Anaemia and pure cell aplasia secondary to Parvovirus in HIV-infected and un-infected patients
Researchers: Dr Kerri-Lee Ann Francois- Virology MMed
Funding: Virology, KZN
Project Title: Pattern of viral respiratory infection in children less than 5 years in KZN, South Africa
Researchers: Dr Tayo Famoroti- Virology MMed
Funding: Virology, KZN
Project Title: Occupational exposures to blood borne viral infections with relevance to HIV Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in KZN
Researchers: Dr Tinyiko Khosa– Virology MMed
Funding: Virology, KZN
Project Title: Prevalence of Delta Hepatitis Infection in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
Researchers: Dr Raveen Parboosing, Virology, UKZN
Funding: NHLS Research Trust
End Date: December 2014
Project Title: JC Virus in Neurological Patients Infected with HIV
Researchers: Dr Pravi Moodley, Lavanya Singh Virology, UKZN, Neurology, UKZN
Funding: NHLS Research Trust
End Date: December 2015