scholarly activities.” Jan 2012 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s International Early Career Scientist Award. Oct 2017 - South African Medical Research Council Gold Scientific Achievement Award. Gold medals are awarded to established senior scientists who have made seminal scientific contributions that have impacted on the health of people. Nov 2018 - Research Excellence Award at the South African Health Excellence Awards. The award ceremony celebrated excellence in healthcare by identifying leaders in medicine who have contributed to research, teaching and advancement of medicine in South Africa. His research interests are host-pathogen interactions, particularly immune mechanisms of HIV and TB control. He has co-authored more than 200 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He has made seminal contributions on our understanding of how virus-host interactions lead to immune-mediated mechanisms of HIV control, which has implications for immune-based prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against the virus. He has received grant funding from the South African National Research Foundation, the South African Medical Research Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the European Union, the African Academy of Sciences and the Wellcome Trust among others. He is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers working in the fields of HIV and TB immunopathogenesis, vaccine development and immune-based HIV functional cure strategies. He has special interest in capacity building for biomedical research in Africa. See also HIV/AIDS in Africa HIV/AIDS in South Africa References Further reading Year of birth missing (living people) HIV/AIDS researchers Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa Kenyan virologists Harvard School of Public Health alumni Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences