👨⚕️ Professor Muki Shey received a silver award for his outstanding contribution to health research. 🏥 Tuberculosis WorldTBDay2023 TBVaccine Read more 👇
Presently, only the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine is available for TB and while it prevents severe TB in children, there is little evidence that it works in adults.
Inside Shey’s office, where on a cloudless day one can look over Table Mountain, a large placard bears testimony to the study. It is titled: Mycobacteria-specific cytokine and antibody responses in healthcare workers with resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. “In Uganda, they’re looking at household contacts of TB patients who don’t get infected in families where there is high exposure of TB. In Johannesburg, they’re looking at gold mines – at mineworkers who have been exposed for a long time and who also have not been infected in that time,” he says.Shey describes his own journey from Nkumkov to Cape Town as a miracle – and now he wants to give back.
Political unrest interrupted construction but the centre was recently completed. Today, Shey is an infectious disease immunologist and an associate professor serving as a chief research officer at UCT’s department of medicine at the faculty of health sciences adjacent to Groote Schuur.
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