Early- or mid-career fellowship programme
In this programme NI supports four early-/mid-career fellows for three years in order to:
- create the opportunity for emerging researchers to strengthen their research and publication record and establish themselves as independent scholars
- enable emerging researchers to apply for grants and funding, based on their chosen research interests and the NI’s priorities
- increase the capacity of the NI to offer employment to postdoctoral fellows, and in so doing retain continuity and lore
- increase the capacity of the NI to mentor postgraduate students
- transform the demographic of established researchers in South Africa
The programme aims to produce researchers who, by the end of their tenure, can secure major funding, enabling them to pursue their own research projects and careers into the future.
2018-2020 Fellows
A/Pr
of Fleur Howells
Mid-career fellow
Delineating psychotic disorders: schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, and methamphetamine-induced psychotic disorder
Dr N
elleke Langerak
Mid-career fellow
Management and long-term follow-up studies in people with childhood-onset neuromuscular disabilities, such as Cerebral Palsy and HIV encephalopathy
Dr
Pieter Naudé
Early-career fellow
- Neuroinflammation, HIV and premature ageing in the brain
- Intergenerational transmission of psychological distress and its effects on neurodevelopment
D
r Ursula Rohlwink
Early-career fellow
- Pathophysiology and molecular signatures of central nervous system tubercolosis, including tuberculous meningitis, in children
- Disease processes and drug recovery in traumatic brain injury