Gugulethu Cynthia Mkhize

About Gugulethu Cynthia Mkhize

MkhizeG5@ukzn.ac.za

Gugulethu Mkhize is our senior scientific grants manager. She has completed a BSc (Honours) from University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has also completed a MSc at Wits University in Johannesburg in collaboration with the The Agricultural Research Council (ARC). After her studies, she has worked as a research scientist and as a research manager at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) at Wits under the leadership of Prof. Glenda Gray (current SAMRC President). At PHRU, Gugulethu specialised in grants management and was responsible for many successful NIH grants. She is specialised in the scientific management part of grants applications and work very close with PIs to apply competitive grants applications. At KRISP, she has gained further experienced and successfully help the application of grants to the European Commission, NIH, NRF, SAMRC, TIA and other national and international funding agencies. Gugulethu is also a runner and enjoy exercising with her family and friends at the Durban beach front.

News Section from Bioafrica and SATuRN websites

NEWS

Breaking Barriers, Building Knowledge: Women at CERI - - 2025-08-08

Fuelling Discovery: The Work Behind the Research - - 2025-08-08

Empowering African Scientists: CERI's Grant Writing Workshop - CERI - 2023-11-07

Opportunity for Masters and PhD scholarship within KRISP at UKZN: 2023 - KRISP - 2022-06-11

Antibodies from S Africa COVID variant may offer cross-protection - Al Jazeera - 2021-03-04

Will vaccines work against the new COVID variants? Scientists race to find out - Bhekisisa - 2021-01-15

South Africa 59% excess deaths imply hidden Covid-19 toll - Sowetan Live - 2020-07-23

South Africa joins 'Big 5' COVID-19 countries - Mybroadband - 2020-07-18

South Africa: Protecting Healthcare Workers 'Not Rocket Science' - All Africa - 2020-06-02

Between two devils: Why hospitals must act fast to prevent health worker deaths - Bhekisisa - 2020-05-25

How one COVID-19 case at St Augustine's Hospital led to 135 infections within 51 days - report - Bhekisisa - 2020-05-20

How one Covid-19 case at St Augustine's Hospital led to 135 infections within 51 days - News24 - 2020-05-20

SA's confirmed Covid-19 cases rise to 5 951, with 13 deaths on Day 1 of level 4 lockdown - IOL News - 2020-05-02

Covid-19: Infections could rise by 10% per day after lockdown lifts - top scientists - News24 - 2020-05-01

Coronavirus: 27 patients on ventilators as SA edges towards the end of 'hard' lockdown - News24 - 2020-04-28

Human trials for vaccine begins - Independent on Saturday - 2020-04-25

There is no magic bullet: the town that turned the tide against HIV. Lessons learned in Eshowe are being used against coronavirus. - The Guardian - 2020-04-06

Masks - to wear or not to wear - Independent on Saturday - 2020-04-04

Odd drop in how Covid-19 numbers grow - Mail & Guadian - 2020-04-02

Single mom makes living sewing face masks amid Covid-19 mask shortage - Briefly News - 2020-04-02

Four reasons to be hopeful about South Africa's coronavirus testing plan - Bhekisisa - 2020-04-01

Testing to be ramped up and new tests in pipeline for COVID-19 - Spotlight and Daily Maverick - 2020-03-31

M&G's latest Covid-19 projections - Mail and Guardian - 2020-03-19

KRISP Newsletter Oct 2019: BioDurban & KRISP walkabout to Sydney to participate in the top translational program in the world: the SPARK Global progra - KRISP Newsletter - 2019-10-04

Three Blogs from KRISP trip to SPARK Global Meeting in Australia, is this the best and most ethical translational program in the world? - KRISP news - 2019-10-02

KRISP participation at BioAfrica 2019 in Review - KRISP News - 2019-10-01

KRISP Newsletter May/June 2019: KRISP participation in BIO 2019, the largest biotechnology innovation convention in the world - KRISP Newsletter - 2019-06-20

BIO 2019: KRISP is part of the official South Africa Delegation at BIO 2019 - KRISP News - 2019-06-02

KRISP Talks: Funding Opportunities: FLAIR Fellowship & SAMRC-NIH Calls 2019 - KRISP Talks - 2019-04-24

Research Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 1st April 2019 - KRISP Education - 2019-03-30

DNA Sequencing Fragment Analysis (i.e Microsatellite) Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 28-29 March 2019 - KRISP Education - 2019-03-28

Capillary Electrophoresis (i.e. Sanger Sequencing) Training Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 24-25 March 2019 - KRISP Education - 2019-03-25

The Grant Process - B) Post-Award Process - - 2019-03-10

NextStrain & Genome Detective Workshop, KRISP, Durban, South Africa, 24-25 January 2019 - KRISP & Univ. of Basel - 2019-01-24

Post-doctoral Fellowship available - Precision Public Health, Durban, South Africa - UKZN - 2019-01-06

Postdoc Fellowship available - Precision Medicine, Durban, South Africa - UKZN - 2019-01-06

PhD (x2) Scholarships available - Precision Medicine and Public Health, Durban, South Africa - UKZN - 2019-01-06

KRISP Preparing Next Generation Scientists - UKZN Ndaba News - 2018-10-18

STEM Education: Training II - Quantitative PCR (qPCR), KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 4 October 2018 - KRISP & Thermo Fisher - 2018-10-04

STEM Education: Sample to PCR Training Workshop, KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 2 October 2018 - KRISP & Thermo Fisher - 2018-10-02

STEM Education: Sample to PCR Training Workshop, KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 6 July 2018 - KRISP & Thermo Fisher - 2018-07-06

The Grant Process - A) Pre-Award Process - - 2018-02-08

Find Funding - List of Agencies in South Africa and abroad - - 2018-02-06

The Machine That Will Help End TB - MIT Technology review - 2012-12-11

VIDEOS

Grants support drives innovation & high level research in Durban, South Africa - YouTube - 2018-07-21

Blogs from Bioafrica and SATuRN websites

BLOGS

5th Annual SPARK Global Meeting - personal view of Dr Richard Lessells and Gugulethu Mkhize - by Richard Lessells & Gugulethu Mkhize - 2019-10-02

The Mississippi baby? questions on a 'functional' cure - by Gillian Hunt, Nono Mkhize, Mark Cotton - 2013-04-10

KRISP has been created by the coordinated effort of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the South African Medical Research Countil (SAMRC).

Location: K-RITH Tower Building
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN
719 Umbilo Road, Durban, South Africa.
Director: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira