About us

Principal Investigator: Prof Frank Brombacher     

Werner Beit South Building; S1.27
Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
UCT Faculty of Health Sciences
Observatory 7925
South Africa

Tel:  27 214066147
        27 214066616
Fax: 27 214066029

Email: fbrombac@mweb.co.za

 

 

External sites:

http://www.icgeb.org

http://saimmunology.org.za/

 

Group Members:

Frank Brombacher	Group Leader	Ramona Hurdayal	PhD Student
Anita Schwegmann	Research Scientist	Farahnaz Ketwaroo	PhD Student
William Horsnell	Research Scientist	Lionel Tantoh	PhD Student
Reto Guler	Research Scientist	Umeshree Govender	MSc Student
Mark Barkhuizen	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mathew Darby	MSc Student
Natalie Nieuwenhuizen	Postdoctoral Fellow	Andrew Einhorn	MSc Student
Frank Kirstein	Postdoctoral Fellow	Rayaana Abrahams-Fredericks	Research Technician
Suzana Savvi	Postdoctoral Fellow	Fadwah Booley	Research Technician
Jennifer Hoving	Postdoctoral Fellow	Lizette Fick	Research Technician
Tiroyaone Brombacher	Postdoctoral Fellow	Wendy Green	Research Technician
Jaisubash Jayakumar	PhD Student	Georg Jacobs	Lab. Assistant
Suraj Prakash Parihar	PhD Student	Chadrick John	Lab. Assistant
Liezel Smith	PhD Student	Sandra Lottering	Lab. Assistant
Alykhan Vira	PhD Student	Gloria McKinnon	Administration
Hlumani Ndlovu	PhD Student

 

 

Press releases (2000 to present)

Brombacher: South African Research Chair Profile 2008
http://www.icgeb.org/frank-brombacher.html

Brombacher: Program Coordinator ICGEB 2008
http://www.icgeb.org/frank-brombacher.html

The Parasite Immunologist’s Crystal Ball 2006
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3024.2006.00888.x

Parasite Immunology Brombacher Editorial Board 2006
www.blackwellpublishing.com/editors.asp?ref=0141-9838

Careers & recruitment : global science career opportunities in ...
( Nature 435, 1282-1283 (June 2005 )… )
www.nature.com/naturejobs/2005/050630/full/nj7046-1282a.html

BioMed Central | BMC Immunology Editorial Board
www.biomedcentral.com/bmcimmunol/edboard/

The JI -- The Journal of Immunology Editorial Board
jimmunol.highwire.org/misc/edboard.shtml

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON PROJECTS IN SA
http://web.uct.ac.za/org/rssa/newslets/2004oct.pdf

LaboratoryJournal; The most cited Immunologists
http://www.biotech-europe.de/rubric/ranking/R01_01/start.html

MRC NEWS: MRC Immunology unit opened
http://www.mrc.ac.za/mrcnews/dec2000/immunology.htm

NRF NEWS: Two new world leaders
http://www.nrf.ac.za/publications/news@nrf/oct2000/rated.stm
http://www.uct.ac.za/generic.php?m=/research/research_ratings.php

UCT NEWS: International Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/immun/infran.htm

 

Highlights, reviews & books (1998 to present)

Highlights:

• Novel smooth muscle-specific IL-4Ralpha deficient mouse strain: role in helminth infection (2006) PLOSpathogen, In press
• Detrimental role of alternatively activated macrophages in leishmaniasis (2006) J. Immunol. 176:1115-21
• Novel CD4+ T cell-specific IL-4R alpha deficient mouse strain: role in schistosomiasis (2006) J. American Pathology. 169:1701-12
• Occupational Allergy caused by a fish helminth (2005) J Allergy Clin Immun, 117:1098
• The role of Interleukin-9 in leishmaniasis (Arendse et al, 2005, J. Immunol.)
• Alternative macrophages in schistosomiasis (Herbert et al, 2004, Immunity)
• Vaccination in leishmaniasis (Stager et al, 2003, Nature Medicine)
• Natural antibodies in infectious disease (Ochsenbein et al, 1999, Science)
• Interleukin-13 in allergic asthma (Grünig et al, 1998, Science)
• IgM & B cell development (Lutz et al, 1998, Nature)

 

Reviews:

• Interleukin-12 family (Brombacher et al, 2003, Trends Immunology)
• Interleukin-13 in infectious disease & allergy (Brombacher, 2000, BioAssay)
• Helminth vaccination (Fincham et al, 2002, Trends Parasitology)

 

Books:

• Interleukin-13; Landes Bioscience Intelligence Unit Series
  ISBN: 1-58706-093-0 | Pub Date: 2005 | List Price: $139 | Web Price $119. IL-13
• Frank Brombacher ISBN: 1-58706-165-1 | Pub Date: 2003 | List Price: $119 ...
  www.landesbioscience.com/iu/series.php