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College of Health Sciences Research Office

PROFESSOR BONGANI NKAMBULE

College Dean: Research

Email: nkambuleb@ukzn.ac.za

Tel: 031 2603841

Campus: Howard College

Building: DVC’s Suite, 1st Floor, George Campbell Building

Research Interests

  • Thrombosis,
  • Platelet function,
  • Chronic inflammation and Immune activation,
  • Metabolic syndromes,
  • HIV Related malignancies
 
Professor Bongani Nkambule was born in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Hematological Pathology obtained in 2015 (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), he is a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) registered Medical Biological Scientist in the discipline of Haematology (Independent Practice), and previously served as the Academic Leader of Research in the school of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa.  

Professor Nkambule has received several prestigious fellowships during his tenure at UKZN. These include the UKZN Fogarty international Center (FIC)-funded Developing Research, Innovation, Localisation and Leadership in South Africa (DRILL) fellowship (2016-2021), a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Senior Research Fellowship (2021-2023) at the world’s leading Laboratory of Hemostasis and Platelet Biology, National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Framingham Heart Study, USA.

Nkambule is the 2023 recipient of the prestigious UKZN Vice-Chancellor’s Research Award, an honour bestowed annually on a leading researcher whose work has garnered substantial academic and international impact. In just over eight years, he has authored an impressive 109 peer-reviewed publications and has made ground-breaking contributions, including publishing the largest study to date on dyslipidemia and platelet function.

He has received several research awards including the 2019 School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences Top-performing Senior Lecturer award (Research Productivity) and the UKZN Top 10 Young Researcher Award in 2021.   He has graduated over seven Doctoral students and 12 Masters students in the past six years (2018-2024). He is currently the main supervisor of 11 postgraduate students (five doctoral candidates and six Master’s students).  

Professor Nkambule is also Principal Investigator (PI) on several multi-disciplinary projects which have attracted over worth over R6million of local grant funding. He is currently the PI on a multinational population-based study on platelet function which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, which aims to provide the largest dataset on platelet traits in a Sub-Saharan Africa population.

The primary focus of Professor Nkambule’s laboratory at Westville campus is on immunohematology, platelet function and immune thrombosis in infectious disease and malignancies.

DOCTORAL and MASTERS RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP for NEW REGISTRATIONS: 2025

University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences

DOCTORAL and MASTERS RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP for NEW REGISTRATIONS: 2025

CONDITIONS OF AWARD:

  1. Doctoral and Masters Research Scholarships are available in order to encourage research efforts within the College of Health Sciences.
  2. The value of the scholarships is R120 000 (SA citizens) and R 60 000 (Non-SA citizens) for PhD; and R60 000 for Masters (funding is for one year only).
  3. The scholarships are for full-time Doctoral and Masters students who are in their first year/year 1 of studies.
  4. For Doctoral candidates, the tenure of the scholarships shall be for one year, renewable for a further two years, subject to good/excellent progress; submitting a progress report. Automatic renewal is not guaranteed.
  5. Only application forms completed in full by all parties will be considered by the College Scholarships Awards

Committee. Applications must be lodged using the CHS online application website: https://scholarship.ukzn.ac.za/ by the closing date of 07 March 2025. The website is compatible with Chrome.

  1. As a minimum, applicants are at least expected to have their research proposals accepted by the relevant School Higher Degrees committees (HDMS). Contact your respective schools regarding HDMS related issues.
  2. Applicants who are about to submit their masters and doctoral theses for examination are not considered for this research scholarship.
  3. Those who already have other scholarships/funding do not qualify for this award.
  4. UKZN generously offers a fee remission for completion of a full-time Master’s degree in one year and a full-time doctoral degree in 3 years.

Incomplete applications will not be considered and no appeals will be considered.

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