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"You need to love what you do – enormously. Things don’t always work out as you may think, you need to persevere, be proactive and be resilient. See failure as opportunity – more is often learnt from facing challenges."
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Caroline Tiemessen
Caroline Tiemessen is a virologist and researcher involved in HIV related research. She heads the Cell Biology Research Laboratory within the Centre for HIV and STIs at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and is a research Professor in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). Her research interests include the study of HIV vaccines and the search for an H
"You need to love what you do – enormously. Things don’t always work out as you may think, you need to persevere, be proactive and be resilient. See failure as opportunity – more is often learnt from facing challenges."
"The defining moment that drove my interest in immunology was an inspiring talk delivered by Prof Yechiel Becker from Israel, who was visiting the then National Institute for Virology (now the NICD)."