UCT Division of Chemical Pathology

30/08/2025

Our division is honoured to have received the 2025 AIMS Best Intern Training Facility Award🏆. This award is a testament to the dedication of our scientists, registrars, technologists, consultants, and academic partners who continuously create an outstanding environment for the growth of future Medical Scientists.

UCT Faculty of Health Sciences

18/07/2025

Highlighting a recent publication by one of our registrars, Riona Sing-Gansan, together with our Lipidology team. This letter to the editor in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine highlights an atypical presentation of Lipoprotein X (LpX) on agarose gel electrophoresis in a cholestatic patient with severe hypercholesterolemia. This case underscores the diagnostic value of nondenaturing polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis in identifying LpX and the pitfalls of LDL cholesterol estimation in such settings.

TO THE EDITOR:

03/06/2025

📸✨ Conference Highlights! ✨📸

We’re incredibly proud of our Chemical Pathology registrars, Dr. Riona Singh-Gansan and Dr. Kgothatjo Magolego, as well as our senior intern medical scientist, Humaira Vawda, who recently attended the EuroMedLab conference in Belgium and presented some amazing work!

Their posters covered a range of fascinating and important topics:

🧬 From laborious to effortless: transforming amino acid reporting with automation – making complex processes simpler and faster.

🧪 An audit of lipoprotein electrophoresis with a focus on lipoprotein X: a Cape Town perspective – shining a light on a rare but important lipid marker.

👶 Investigation of paediatric pyroglutamic aciduria: a diagnostic approach in South Africa – offering insight into a rare condition with local relevance.

📝 Serum Potassium Measurement: Dependence on Seasonal Temperature and Independence from Precentrifugation Delays ≤30 Hours – contributing important findings on how sample handling and environmental factors affect potassium results.

A special shoutout to Humaira Vawda, who was also a recipient of the AFCC young scientist award to attend this conference.

Well done for flying the ChemPath flag high! 🌍👏

We love seeing our future specialists grow and share their work with the wider community. Keep inspiring! 💙