Identifying elite controllers: a genomic study of South African individuals with HIV

Veron Ramsuran (right) is a Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN; South Africa) specializing in the association between human genetics and infectious diseases. Veron completed his PhD and postdoc in the USA before returning to South Africa, where he is now the Principal Investigator of HIV, tuberculosis and other infectious disease studies. Rizwana Mia (left) is the Senior Program Manager of strategic health innovation partnerships at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC; Cape Town, South Africa) and Vice Chair of The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed). Rizwana studied genetics before joining a startup developing monoclonal antibodies. From there,...