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Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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! 💙

14/11/2023

Today is World Diabetes Day. As we continue to study how this disease affects our local population, it is important to remember that Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus can be prevented and managed with a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.

24/09/2023

World Mitochondrial Disease Week (18-24 September 2023).

23/09/2023

The symptoms of mito diseases can vary considerably making them difficult to diagnose. Extreme FATIGUE is a common symptom, that leave sufferers needing days to recharge their mitochondria, as well as leaving them isolated and depressed.

20/09/2023

This week is World Mitochondrial Disease Week. This devastating group of disorders often go undiagnosed. In order to help raise awareness, we will be posting a different fact about this disease each day this week.

18/08/2023

Don't forget to register for the upcoming Rare Research webinar taking place on the 5th of September from 11:00- 12:00.

Our guest speakers will be discussing the following topics: A Retrospective Audit of Inherited Metabolic Disease Diagnoses in Cape Town, South Africa; MPV17 mitochondrial neurohepatopathy in South Africa and Congenital Hypothyroidism in Cape Town, South Africa.

To register for our CPD accredited webinar click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dLwOREQKTbe2kgSUbdV2SA

16/08/2023

UCT Division of Chemical Pathology would like to welcome Dr Marizna Korf to our consultancy team.
Dr Korf became a qualified chemical pathologist in 2021 and subsequently held positions at NHLS Tygerberg and Stellenbosch University. She joined the NHLS Groote Schuur / UCT team on the 1st of August 2023.

02/06/2023

We are very proud of Lwando Mampunye, one of our intern medical scientists, who represented South Africa at WorldLab-EuroMedLab in Rome, Italy. Lwando presented an oral and a poster on 'Integration of Germline and Tumour Genetics into a Pathology-Supported Genetic Testing Algorithm for Improved Risk Management of Breast Cancer in South Africa' in the Precision Medicine Congress Session. He was the only African oral presenter in this session. Lwando also attended the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Young Scientist Forum where he gained important insight that can be shared with the team in South Africa. Well done Lwando!

07/03/2023

We would like to welcome Dr Robin Booysen who has joined the UCT Department of Pathology as Operations Manager on the 1st of March 2023.

Address

Anzio Road
Cape Town
7925

Telephone

+27214066192

Website

http://www.chemicalpathology.uct.ac.za/

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