Oral Presentation Winners

Babalwa Zani Malaria Research Programe, Medical Research Council, University of KwaZulu-Natal Title of Talk: Comparing Artesunate combined wih amodiaquine and artesunate combined with sulfadoxine-pyeremethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium Falciparum malaria.
W. Smith W. Smith1, G. Norton2, A Lochner1, E du Toit1 1Biomedical Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, 2University of Witswatersrand Title of Talk: Insulin-dependence of cardiac systolic function in obese, insulin- resistant rats.
Y. Singh Y Singh1, M Hajek1, C Seebregts2, D Moodley1 1Department of Tele-Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2Medical Research Council Title of Talk: The investigation of the use of machine learning algorithms as a resistance prediction tool for patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy

Poster Presentation winners

Colleen Saunders Dr Alison September, Prof Malcolm Collins University of Cape Town, Medical Research Council Title of Talk: Haplotype analysis of a candidate gene as a risk factor for Archilles tendon pathology
Z. Mciza  Z. Mciza, JH Goedecke, EV Lambert UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town Title of Talk: Accuracy of Reporting food energy intake: Influence of culture and body weight status in South African women
Craig Kinnear Dan Stein, Valerie Corfield, Hanlie Moolman-Smook MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorder, MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology Title of Talk: Identification of novel schizophrenia candidate genes using Yeast 2-Hybrid analysis
Amod Kulkarni Lauriston Kellaway, Girish Kotwal Division of Neuroscience, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Kotwal Bioconsulting,LLC,President &CEO Inflame, Inc. Title of Talk: Comparison of the neurobehavioral effects of vaccinia virus complement control protein (VCP), its truncated analogue (TVCP) and curcumin delivered intranasally to the central nervous system in a mouse model (Mo/Hu APPswe PS1dE9 transgenic mice) of Alzheimers disease